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Show I i oV In dose busy wukin' days, 3 dpy's changed de Scripter fashions, An' you needn't look to mlrakuls to furnish fur-nish you with rations; Now, when you's wantln' loaves o' bread, you got to go an' fetch "em. For you can put it down as sartin' dat de time is long gone by When sassages an' taters use to rain out of de sky. Uncle Remus. CHRISTMAS CANDIES. The home-made caadies are so much more wholesome, especially for the little people, That everybody should know how to prepare a few kinds. . Butter Cups. Boil a pound of granulated gran-ulated sugar with a half cup of water and a teaspoonful of butter five minutes; min-utes; add a fourth of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and boll until It hairs, then add a teaspoonful of molasses, and pour out to cool. Have a pound of fondant, previously prepared, flavor with vanilla, and roll out into a long strip. When the cooked sugar Is cool enough to pull, place a long piece on the fondant and fold two ends together, togeth-er, gently rolling into a long, narrow strip. Cut up into small pieces with a sharp knife or scissors. Fondant is prepared by boiling together to-gether two cups of sugar, a half cup of water and a quarter of a teaspoonful teaspoon-ful of cream of tartar until, when tried In water, the sirup makes a soft, waxy bail. Then cool and stir until creamy anT white. Panoche. Cook together until the soft ball stage, a cup and a half each of white and brown sugar with two tablespoonfuls of butter. Cool before stirring, add nuts and mark off In squares. Cream Candy. Boil together three cups of sugar, with water to cover, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and a teaspoonful of vanilla. When the mixture hairs add a tablespoonful of cream and pour out on a slab and cool; then pull, cut and put into fruit jars for a day or two to become creamy. Nuggets. Boil to the soft ball stage a cup of brown, a cup of white sugar and a cup of water; add a half teaspoonful tea-spoonful of soda, a teaspoonful of vanilla and pour over the weil-beaten white of an egg. Beat until firm enough to drop in nugget-like pieces, after adding a half cup of nut meats. Potato Candy. Cook and mash one small potato, add confectioners sugar until dry enough to roll; flavor and mold. f j HE law of worthy life Is funda-mentally funda-mentally the law of strife. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Theodore Roosevelt. MORE CHOICE DESSERTS. A delicious and well prepared dessert des-sert will often help us to forget that the preceding dishes were not all that they should be. Manhattan Pudding. Mix a fourth of a cup of lemon juice with a cup and a half of orange juice and sweeten to taste. Turn the mixture into a brick mold. Whip a pint of cream, add a half cup of powdered sugar, half a tablespoonful ta-blespoonful of vanilla and two-thirds of a cup of nut -meats; pour over the first mixture to overflow the mold, cover with buttered paper, fit on the cover and pack In ice and salt, three hours. Nesselrode Pudding. Make a custard cus-tard of three cups of milk, a cup and a half of sugar, and the yolks of five eggs; strain and cool, add a pint of thin cream, a fourth of a cup of pineapple pine-apple sirup, a half teaspoonful of salt, and a cup and a half of large chestnuts chest-nuts which have been cooked until ecift and forced through a sieve. Line a two-quart melon mold with a part of the mixture, and to the remainder add a half cup of candied fruit cut in small pieces, a quarter of a cup of Sultana raisins nnd eight chestnuts broken in pieces and soaked in Maraschino Maras-chino sirup several hours. Fill the mold, cover, pack in salt and ice and let stand for two hours. Serve with whipped cream Bweetened and flavored fla-vored with Maraschino sirup. Italian Meringue. Make a sirup by boiling a half cup of sugar and a fourth of a cup. of wnter until It threads; pour over the beaten whites of three eggs and continue beating. Place In a pan of ice water and beat until cold. Dissolve a fourth of a teaspoon tea-spoon of gelatine In a small quantity of boiling water, strain Into the mixture, mix-ture, add a cup o whipped cream, flavor and chill. This is delicious served with a strawberry or raspberry sauce. |