Candies
Ondant for Cream Candies
To one pound of granulated sugar, add three-fourths cup of boiling water, and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Let the syrup boil about…
Nut Creams
Chop almonds, hickory nuts, butternuts or English walnuts quite fine. Make the French cream, and before adding all the sugar, and while the…
Date Creams
Cut open the dates and fill with French cream paste.
Chocolate Cream Drops
Take French cream and mold into cone-shape forms with the fingers; then lay the cones on waxed paper or a marble slab until the next day to…
Vinegar Candy
One pound of white sugar; one wine glass vinegar; one tumbler of water and a teaspoon of vanilla. Boil half an hour and pull until very…
Molasses Candy
Two cups molasses; one cup white sugar; butter half the size of an egg; two teaspoons vinegar; boil until candy hardens in cold water.
Butter Scotch
Three tablespoons of molasses; two tablespoons of sugar; two tablespoons of water; one tablespoon of butter; add a pinch of soda. Boil…
Dates Stuffed
Remove the stones and fill the dates with chopped almonds or peanuts; then close and roll them in powdered sugar.
Salted Almonds
Blanch the almonds, and dry. Put a good sized piece of butter into a dripping pan, and as it warms stir the almonds over and over to coat…
Crystallized Fruits
Make a syrup of a pound of sugar and one-half cup of water. Boil, without stirring, until a drop put into iced water becomes immediately…
Chocolate Caramels
Two cups molasses; two and onehalf tablespoons butter; one cup brown sugar and one-half cup milk. Put the butter into a saucepan, and, when…
Candies
in cold water and pressed between the fingers. Remove from stove and add one teaspoon of vanilla. Pour into buttered tins and when…
Mexican Caramels
Heat a cup of granulated sugar by placing it in a saucepan and setting saucepan in oven. When hot, remove to top of stove and stir until…
Maple Fudge
One pound maple sugar and one cup milk. Bring to a boil and add a tablespoon of butter. Cook until it becomes brittle when tested in cold…
Brown Sugar Candy
Two cups brown sugar; one cup of cream or rich milk; two cups of chopped walnut meats. Boil sugar and cream until it forms a thread. Remove…
Marsh Mallows
Dissolve a half pound white gum arabic in one pint of water, strain and add half pound fine sugar; place over the fire, stirring constantly…
Peppermint Drops
Cook slowly one cup of granulated sugar with one-fourth cup of water, stirring occasionally. Test frequently by dropping a little of the…
Maple Sugar Candy
Break into pieces one pound of soft maple sugar and put in a saucepan with three-fourths cup of cream and one-fourth cup of boiling water…
Peanut Nougat
Put one pound of granulated sugar in a graniteware saucepan and heat until the sugar is melted, stirring constantly. Have in readiness one…
Resh Berries
Wash in a colander and drain. Place on ice until time for serving. Strawberries where very large and perfect may be served with hulls on…
Iced Orange Juice
Fill small glass cups with strained orange juice and set each in the center of a soup plate filled with cracked ice. This makes a delicious…
Fresh Fruit Salads
See chapter on Salads; also chapter on Cold Desserts. GRAPEFRUIT-Cut in halves crosswise. Separate pulp from skin with sharp-pointed knife…
Fruit Cocktails
WATERMELONS-To serve a whole watermelon at table, cut in halves, crosswise, and cut a slice from each end, sufficient to make it stand on a…
Apple Sauce
Pare and quarter the apples, put them in a porcelain kettle with a little water; boil until tender, then put in sugar to suit the taste…
Spiced Apple Sauce
Pare, cut into quarters and core a dozen medium sized sour apples. Place in a saucepan sprinkle with one cup of brown sugar, add a dozen…
Steamed Apples
Core the apples, fill cavities with sugar and put in a saucepan with cold water to the depth of an inch. Cover and cook slowly, turning the…
Baked Sweet Apples
Select sound, sweet apples. Core and place one-half teaspoon of sugar in each cavity. Place in a graniteware baking-dish, pour in boiling…
Baked Sour Apples
Follow the same directions as for sweet apples, using one teaspoon of sugar in each cavity and basting the apples occasionally while…
Fried Apples
Slice some apples, dip them in a batter made of one egg, sugar, milk and flour enough to thicken; fry a golden brown, sprinkle with lemon…
STEWED PRUNES (Cover the fruit with cold)
Cover the fruit with cold water the day before cooking, and let it soak all night. The following morning remove the prunes from the juice…
Fruits: Fresh and Dried
prunes, and place the saucepan on a cool part of the stove, where they should be allowed to simmer for one-half hour.
Stewed Raisins
Wash as many as are needed and leave them in water for twenty-four hours. Then heat them slowly in the water in which they have soaked…
Cranberry Jelly
Look over carefully and wash four cups cranberries. Place in a saucepan, pour over them one cup of boiling water and let boil for twenty…
Stewed Rhubarb
Peel the rhubarb and cut in one-inch pieces. Sprinkle with sugar and put in a saucepan with just enough water to keep rhubarb from burning…
Baked Rhubarb
Prepare as for stewing and place in baking-dish in a slow oven. Sprinkle generously with sugar and add a little water. Bake until the…
Stewed Dried Fruit
All kinds of dried fruit should be carefully looked over, washed and drained in a colander. It should then be soaked an hour or more before…