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Fruit and Gelatine Candies: Wafers

For children's parties the initial of the first name of each child may be cut out of the thinly rolled candy. With fancy cutters or a model cut from cardboard, birds and animals may be cut out, and used for favors. Assorted Wafers Prepare mixture as for wintergreen wafers, omitting the oil of wintergreen. Substitute the following combinations of color and flavor, dividing the mixture into several portions, and coloring and flavoring each portion differently.

With oil of clove use scarlet color paste With Oil of cinnamon use rose color paste With oil of lime use green color paste With orange extract use orange color paste With lemon extract use yellow color paste With melted chocolate use vanilla extract Finish like Wintergreen Wafers. orange Wafers Peel of 2 oranges 3/4 cup orange juice 1/4 cup water 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons gelatine 1 teaspoon orange extract Soak orange peel in cold water to cover overnight, then boil one hour, changing the water every fifteen minutes. Drain, and grind the peel to a pulp, then add sugar, half a cup of orange juice, and one fourth cup water, and boil, stirring occasionally to prevent burning, until thick and syrupy. Add gelatine soaked in remaining one fourth cup orange juice, mix well, add orange extract, and drop from tip of teaspoon on to a buttered marble slab or oiled paper. Before wafers have time to stiffen, place a nut meat in center. A small amount of mixture can be combined with finely chopped pecan nut meats and candied cherries, and used as a filling between two wafers. Wafers can be dipped in melted coating chocolate if desired.