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OF COURSE YOU LIKE CANDY
(See Recipe* Below)
Making candy is really outside the
realm of general cooking, but with a
little guidance, even an amateur can
work real magic with sugar and wa
ter. Simply by changing tempera
ture and the method of handling, a
wide variety of fondants, fudges,
and hard candies can be made.
Utensils for Making Candy.
Saucepans should have broad bot
toms, and should be large enough to
allow for Dolling
up.” The inside
surface should be
smooth, because
(rough spots may
cause candies to
stick and burn.
Measuring cups
> —use standard
measuring cups
.— —-for successful re
sults; accurate measurements are
essential.
Spoons and spatulas — wooden
spoons are desirable for candy mak
ing because they do not become un
comfortably hot, nor does the wooden
spoon handle cut into one’s hand
during beating. Use standard table
spoons and teaspoons for measuring.
A medium-sized spatula is a help in
scraping candy from kettles, and
lifting candy from the pan.
Baking sheets, platters and pans—
ordinary cookie sheets provide a
good surface for pouring hard can
dies; large platters may be used for
taffy, which is to be taken out and
pulled, or for fondant which is to be
beaten. A marble slab from an old
fashioned marble-topped table or bu
reau makes an excellent smooth,
level surface for pouring candies.
Candy thermometer—a thermom
. eter is essential in order to obtain
uniform and good results in making
candy.
Candies are classified as “creamy
candies,” such as fondant or fudge,
and as "taffies" and "hard" candies,
like nut brittle and lollipops.
In making creamy candies two
rules must be observed: cook the
candy to a definite temperature, and
cool to room temperature before you
begin to beat.
Brasilian Molasses Balls.
(Makes 24 small balls)
1V4 cups sugar
Va cup hot water
Vt cup light molasses
% teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vinegar
y« cup butter
3 pints popped corn
1 pint Brazil nuts (sliced)
Dissolve sugar in hot water. Add
molasses, salt and vinegar and cook
to soft crack stage (270 degrees).
Remove from heat, and add butter.
Stir syrup slowly into popped corn
and Brazil nuts. Mix well, and shape
into balls.
Lollipops.
(Makes \Vi dozen)
2 cups sugar
% cup light corn syrup
1 cup water
tt teaspoon oil of cloves or oil of
cinnamon
Red or green coloring
Put sugar, syrup, and water in a
sauce pan. Cook, stirring Just until
the sugar is dis
soiveu. continue
cooking over very
low heat, to 310
degrees on a can
dy thermometer.
Wash down the,
crystals that form
during cooking,
using cheese cloth
which has been ' '
wrapped around a fork or spoon.
When the candy reaches 310 de
grees, remove from heat, add fla
voring and coloring and mix very
quickly. Pour into small buttered
muflftn pans, filling them only V«
inch deep. As soon as the lollipops
begin to set (which will take only a
few minutes) loosen them from
sides of pan and turn out on table
top. Insert the pointed end of a
small skewer into the side of each
lollipop, working it in carefully to
avoid breaking the candy. It will
be necessary to work quickly.
Milk Chocolate Marshmallow Candy
V4 pound broken milk chocolate
1 1-ounce square bitter chocolate
Vi cup walnut meats (broken)
8 marshmallows, (cut in halves)
Melt milk chocolate and bitter
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chocolate together in the top of a
double boiler. Remove from flame
and add walnut meats and marsh
mallows. Stir gently until thorough
ly mixed. Drop by teaspoonfuls on
wax paper. Serve when cooL
Taffy Apples.
Place a meat skewer in end of
each apple. Cook together 1 cup
sugar, 1 cup white corn syrup, Vi
cup butter, and 1 cup coffee cream
until mixture reaches Arm ball stage
(246 degrees). Stir carefully to avoid
scorching. Remove from flame and
dip each apple into mixture and then
in cold water.
Butterscotch Nut Marshmallows.
1 cup light brown sugar
Vi cup cream
Vi teaspoon vanilla extract
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi pound marshmallows
Vi cup nut meats (finely chopped)
Place brown sugar, cream, vanilla
extract, and salt in a saucepan.
Cook slowly, stir
ring frequently,
to the soft ball
stage (236 de
grees). Remove
from flame and
place sauce-pan
over hot water
to keep mixture
from cooling. Coat marshmallows
with the butterscotch mixture and
then roll immediately in the finely
chopped nut meats. Place on a but
tered platter until cold.
Red and Green Popcorn Balls.
(Makes 10 balls)
2 cups sugar
2 table poons light corn syrup
1V4 cups water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Red or green liquid coloring
3 quarts popped corn
Combine sugar, corn syrup and
water, and cook in a saucepan, stir
ring until the sugar is dissolved.
Continue cooking until the tempera
ture 290 degrees is reached, or until
a few drops of the syrup becomes
brittle when dropped into cold wa
ter. Add vanilla extract and a few
drops of red or green coloring. Stir
sufficiently to mix the coloring even
ly. Pour the cooked syrup over the
popped corn, which has been sprin
kled with salt; stir well, and form
into balls with the hands, using lit
tle pressure.
Chocolate Pudge.
(Makes 36 lV«-lnch squares)
2 tablespoons butter
3 cups sugar
1 cup milk
2 squares chocolate (2 ounces) (cut
in pieces)
Vi cup honey
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Nutmeats if desired
Melt butter in a saucepan. Add
sugar and milk, and mix well. Bring
to a boil, then cover and cook with
the lid on for about 3 minutes Re
move lid, add chocolate and honey,
and look to soft ball stage (236 de
grees). Remove from heat, and add
vinegar and vanilla. Cool to room
temperature. a*td beat until the
fudge is thick »no :*» t»n\y Add nut
meats if desi-ed •n«* spread in well
buttered pan.
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Tasty Sauce
A cup of grated chees» added to
; the white sauce that is served with
j cauliflower is very good.
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NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Revitwtd by
CARTER FIELD
British bombers' dam
age to German tear pro
duction greater than re
ported . . . Irish refuse
to aid Britain, emphasize
necessity of strict neu
trality.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.*
WASHINGTON.—The two most
encouraging phases of the war, from
the standpoint of hoping that Britain
holds out, are that Germany is suf
fering a great deal more in damage
to her own war production than any
dispatches have indicated, and that
the Italian fiasco in Greece has post
poned a successful attack on Egypt
and Suez until next winter.
British production of airplanes has
been badly hurt by the German air
raids, but imports from the United
States now amount to slightly above
300 fighters and bombers a month.
This is behind schedule, incidental
ly. United States production of all
classes of planes is about 200 a
month behind schedule.
But the number of combat planes
is now actually above 300 each
month, and this number is being
slowly increased each month.
Sometime in early summer, assum
ing Britain holds out, there will be
a sharp increase in production. A
little later, depending entirely on
how rapidly the Detroit group of
automobile people get into actual
production, there will be another
sharp rise.
OUTLOOK IS ENCOURAGING
It is all a question of whether
Britain can take it until quantity de
liveries begin. Information in diplo
matic circles here now is more en
couraging on that than at any time
in the last six months, and this de
spite the bad news about the dam
age to plants in Britain.
While President Roosevelt talks
about our own national defense need
ing one-half of our production of
planes, actually practically all the
fighting planes are being sent to
Britain. This is not as one-sided
as it sounds. Our army and navy
want training planes for student pi
lots far more than they want fight
ing planes. This situation is likely
to continue for some time to come.
But while Germany’s production
of planes has been cut down as a
result of British bombing, according
to confidential reports received
here, the Nazi losses have not been
heavy in the last couple of months.
Had they continued the mass raids
they began in early September, ac
cording to at least one observer,
they would have won the war in a
month. But there is another side of
that picture. Had their losses con
tinued at the rate of 200 a day, they
might have lost their air superiority
before they won the war.
m w m
SUBMARINE BASE UNLIKELY
The government of Eire is very
inquisitive about the source of the
information of one of the military
experts who writes a newspaper
column, and who recently asserted
that he “knew” the Germans were
using Galway as a base for sub
marine operations.
The Dublin government contends
that the Germans could not possibly
use any Irish base without every
body knowing about it. In particu
lar, officials of the Irish government
insist, the topography around Gal
way is such that a canoe could not
enter and leave the harbor without
a lot of people seeing it and wonder
ing whose canoe it was.
Incidentally, it is represented that
the Irish living in Ireland, or Eire
as they insist upon calling it, are
much more friendly to the British
today than the third and fourth
generations of Irish living in the
United States.
There has been no such mellowing
of feeling on the part of the Amer
ican Irish as has transformed the
Irish back in the home country since
Eire has been a separate nation.
Britain is Eire's best customer, par
ticularly tor the huge supplies of
foodstuffs that the Irish produce.
DENY BASES TO BRITAIN
In fact the only thorn among the
roses, until quite recently, was the
fact that the South Irish still wanted
to take over Ulster. Lately there
has been concern about Winston
Churchill's statement indicating that
Britain needed Irish ports for bases.
On this, the position of the Dub
lin government is as the ancient law
of the Medes and Persians. Noth
ing doing. The Irish would fight
“anybody.” it is asserted, who at
tempted to occupy any of their soil.
As they see it, the moment Britain
occupied any of their ports or bases
their entire country would be sub
ject to German bombing. They
point out that they do not have ade
quate defenses against bombing.
Even Britain, which has lots of de
fenses, is not able to prevent the
bombers doing a great deal of dam
age. they insist, whereas Eire has
virtually no defenses.
There is a very keen realization
| in Eire of their defenseless condi
tion against an attack in force by
either of the belligerents. All they
could hope to do, they think, is to
resort to guerilla warfare.
CELESTES
WHINES
se
(Associated Newspapers.)
WNU Service.
THERE was nothing new about
Celeste’s whining. All of her
twenty years she had merely
to whine and the whole family
hastened to adjust things to suit her
fancy. Although her sister was only
two years olfier, Virginia had been
made to give up to Celeste from
the time she was a baby. Neither
the parents nor Virginia realized
how completely Celeste had come
to dictate their lives.
Just now Celeste was demanding
a new dress. It little mattered to
her that she had had two new
dresses since Virginia had any.
Virginia sighed and handed over
the money she had tbeen saving for
a trip. There was more resentment
in her heart than she had ever been
conscious of before, but her moth
er’s caressing little pat assured her
that she had done the right thing.
"You know, she’ll be young only
once,” the mother consoled, and
seemed not to think that Virginia
might enjoy being young once, too.
In a few hours Celeste returned
from her shopping trip in a Jubilant
mood.
"Just as I guessed. I have a per
fectly gorgeous date and now I have
something to wear.”
On and on she talked of the man
who has "everything.”
"Who is he?” Virginia asked half
heartedly.
"You’d never guess in a hundred
years. He’s just inherited $100,000
and only think what a wonderful
chance for me, mumsey,” she re
joiced.
Her mother agreed with her and
they sat planning how Celeste must
be given every help in the family's
power that she might be sure to
make the proper impression.
"Now, Virginia, since this won
der man is coming this afternoon,
won’t you do your best with the
lunch? Some of your delicious
marshmallow cocoa with chicken
salad and some of those new sand
wiches like you made last night,
with a relish and some nuts would
be just right.” The mother had
swallowed hook, line and sinker, as
usual, when Celeste had some new
plan. And, as usual, the real work
of it all fell to Virginia.
Virginia went to the kitchen and
started her task with rising rebel
lion in her heart.
“Yes, Virginia can look on from
afar and do the work,” she stormed
as she shredded the chicken for the
salad.
Before she had finished the salad
she heard Celeste lading in her best
company voice, and she could imag
ine her sister, crisp and lovely in
the new dress, entertaining her
handsome friend.
“I’ll have to admit that she can
look charming,” Virginia conceded
grudgingly.
Just then she heard the swinging
door from the dining room creak
and looking up saw her old friend,
Bill Thomas.
"How’er you, Virginia?” he
beamed and grasped both her hands
in a hearty grip. "Up to your old
tricks! Honest, I never saw an
other girl that could stir up as good
things to eat as you used to fix for
our school picnics.”
"Flatterer! Now you’ll have to
pay for your rashness by tasting
each of these things I’m preparing
and tell me if you think they are
good enough to trap a hundred
thousand-dollar husband for Ce
leste.”
“What’s this?” Bill paused mid
way in his sampling.
“That’s what I said. I don’t know
who he may be, but it certainly
has laid us all out to get her gowned
and fed properly.”
“Lucky I didn’t stay in there and
queer her chance. Now I’ll slip off
my coat and help you here, as we
used to when we were in high school.
What do you say, Virgie?"
Virginia flushed with pleasure at
her old nickname and found herself
confiding that everything there was
Celeste’s, without really meaning to
do it. With each glance at Virginia
Bill seemed to wear a more satis
fied expression.
“You haven't told me this new
man’s name?”
“Sorry, but Celeste wouldn’t even
tell me,” Virginia confided.
Bill gave a low whistle and went
on helping.
Finally things were ready and
they both prepared to serve the
lunch. Virginia served the plates
in a most tempting way while Bill
filled the cocoa cups.
“I’ve served enough plates for us
all to have some. Of course, we'll
eat alone so we won’t spoil the fam
ily impression,” Virginia laughed.
“Well, something tells me that we
won’t need all those plates,” Bill
volunteered.
“What, you don’t imagine for one
minute that this mysterious gentle
man has failed to appear?”
“Oh, no, no,” Bill consoled imme
diately.
Sure enough, as Virginia appeared
with the luncheon she was met by
the astonishing sight of Celeste sit
ting sedately in a large chair, beau
tiful in her new dress, Kut accusing
ly silent and moody toward her sis
ter. Virginia, entirely innocent of
her sister’s plot that had failed,
laughed happily.
“Bill just happened in to help me,
Celeste. But where is the wonder
ful man?”
Celeste gave one frantic look at
her sister and Bill, the look of a
trapped animal, then fled upstairs
to fling herself on the bed and cry
bitter, stormy tears, unmindful of the
damage done the lovely new dress.
Virginia gasped in amazement
and turned to Bill.
"Well, looks as if I’d failed to play
up to my part in Celeste’s expecta
tions,” he said as they sat down at
table together. "But didn’t she tell
you I was planning to come up this
afternoon, and didn't you know that
Uncle William had just left me
$100,000? You don’t have to an
swer, for I can see you didn’t.”
"Bill, you don't mean—” Virginia
was speechless.
"I do mean that Celeste delib
erately took your best at home and
then tried to fix things so you’d never
see me. I'd like to see the person
that could keep me away from you,
Virginia, if you really want me near
you,” he added tenderly.
"Bill, I’m so sorry for silly little
Celeste,” Virginia whispered hap
pily.
The Homecoming
By ALLISON L. BURKS
(McClure Syndicate—WNU Service.)
_
LOOKING out the train window,
Laura could see the two old
people who stood on the platform.
In the dim glow of the station light
they looked unchanged, exactly as
they had when she felt them six
years ago.
She lifted the child in her arms
before she went down the steps of
the car. “Laura!” All the way
from California there had been a
weight in Laura’s breast. Now, as
her mother’s arms closed about
her, she felt the weight miraculously
dissolving.
Her father took the little girl from
her arms. “So this is the baby!”
His voice sounded choked.
A dark figure standing behind
him moved closer. Ma chuckled.
“You didn’t see Lew, did you
Laurie? He wanted to come with
us to meet you."
“Oh, Lew!” Laura’s voice was a
little breathless.
TJie man took the slim hand she
held out to him. She knew he was
looking down at her intently. "I’m
glad you’re back, Laura,” he said
quietly.
• • •
“It's just the same! It’s just the
same!” The words were like a song
in Laura’s heart as they went into
the living room.
Ma went upstairs with her. “I
put new drapes at your windows,”
she told Laura. “How do you think
Lew’s looking? He’s the only law
yer in these parts, and he’s doing
fine. He's never forgot you, Laurie.
“Of course, I know you must be
grieving over your husband dying
—I wish we could’a known him,
Laurie—but now that you’re back
again—”
• • •
Laura sat down on the edge of
the plump bed. The little girl came
close to her side.
“Are we going to live here, Mum
my?”
“Yes, darling.” She caught the
child to her fiercely, staring ahead
with eyes that were suddenly hard.
Five years! She would have at
least five years. Then she would
have to go back. But the child
would stay here. Ma and Pa
weren't really old. They would be
glad to have the baby when she,
Laura, was gone. For a mo
ment she felt the pain that parting
would bring. Then she set her lips
resolutely. She would have her five
years in Heaven. Years ago, before
she went away, she hadn’t known
it was Heaven. But Jack had taught
her what Hell could be.
Of course, she could have di
vorced him. But it wouldn’t have
done any good. Jack would never
let her go. Sometimes he loved her;
more often he hated her. But he’d
never let go of her.
She washed the little girl’s round
face and chubby hands before they
went downstairs.
Lew came into the dining-room
when he saw her there setting the
table. “I hope you were just a little
glad to see me, Laura,” he said
awkwardly.
“Why, of course, Lew.” She didn’t
look at him.
“You don’t care if I come out
here sometimes?"
“The sugar bowl’s empty,” she
murmured. She went toward the
kitchen. She’d better tell him. She
mustn’t hurt him—not again!
Ma was at the kitchen sink, un
wrapping a newspaper from around
a bunch of celery. She paused, her
eyes caught by an item in the print
ed columns.
“Here’s a funny thing,” she said
absently. “About a man named
John Brown. The same name as
your man, Laura. In Los Angeles—
Oh, well, I guess there’s a lot of
John Browns in the world.”
She went across the kitchen to
the pantry. Laura drew the news
paper toward her. She stood very
still, reading the short item.
John Brown, sentenced to San
Quentin for robbery, was shot and
killed while attempting to escape.
Lew had followed Laura into the
kitchen. “You didn’t answer me,
Laura,” he reminded her.
She turned to him. Her voice was
suddenly alive, vibrant. “Why,
Lew,” she said. “I want you to
come. I’ll always want you to
come!”
And, her hands against her face,
she began to cry.
OP? SEW
4*"- Ruth Wyeth Spears o«^5>
BIAS
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LONG slip-stitch
IN PROTECTOR
EDGE-SHORTfsa^
STITCHES INjiiP
BLANKET^f^^
FASTEN WITH SLIP
STITCH BASTING
IT WAS a bride of ten years who
* reminded me of blanket protec
tors. I say bride because her
home still has the immaculate
freshness of a bride’s house. Her
wool blankets have never been
washed or cleaned, yet their soft
light colorings show no sign of
soil. She brought out some long
pieces of cotton material; “I baste
these over the tops of the blan
kets,” she said ‘‘and change them
every few weeks.”
I thought of some dainty bed lin
ens that I had seen all trimmed
in flower sprigged cotton print.
Why not make flowered blanket
protectors to harmonize with blan
ket colorings? Here is one that
would go with either rose or blue.
It is easy to hide basting stitches
that fasten it temporarily to the
blanket by slipping them along in
the pink or blue binding as shown.
One length of material as long as
the width of the blanket will make
a pair of these protectors.
• * *
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T'lNY red-figured print for the
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ting naturally suggested the Poin
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• * *
Add peeled, quartered apples
when you roast lamb or veal. The
apples add a delicious flavor and
give a soft topping to the roast.
* * *
Always remove the wrappings
from fresh meats before storing
in the refrigerator.
* * •
Fruit cake makes a delicious
pudding if served with a sauce.
• • •
More food value is preserved
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may be pieced or appliqued, but
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