PRACTICAL RECIPES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 193, 15 December 1941, Page 6

PRACTICAL RECIPES

This season there is a vogue for combining candies to make interesting novelties, and "while candies for these are generally commercial products, the combining into novelties can be done at home. This is a thrifty method. Cooked Fondant Recipe Twice as much sugar as water is used—% teaspoon cream of tartar to each proportion of 2 cups of sugar to 1 cup of -water. Put all together in a saucepan and boil for a few minutes, then pour into a platter. Do not scrape the pan or the fondant "will be granular. After ten minutes or when the fondant is cool enough to keep the dent of the finger pressed on it, begin to work it from edges toward centre. A spatu':a is best for this but a tablespoon can be used. When too firm to "work thus," knead it with the hands until of a good creamy consistency. Pack in a jar with a -wide mouth. Cover light so no air gets toi it, and set away until the day before Christmas, -when it can be formed into balls to be dipped in chocolate, or rolled in cocoanul, or wrapped around nuts, raisins, cherries, etc., or rolled in white or coloured powdered sugar. It can be made into a "wide variety of candies and fillings. Part of it can be coloured with vegetable colourings and used for bright fillings and candies. WHY HE FAINTED The little man who was the meek cscort of the big woman in her ramble through the stores in search of suitable Christmas presents had fainted. "Is he subject to this sort of thing?" asked the sliopAvalkcr, as he applied a block of ice to the man's head and motioned the crowd to stand back. "Not exactly," replied the -woman, picking np the parccls her husband had dropped. "He's a little nervy at times. I 1 tried to buy it without letting him see, but he heard me give the order." "Bin* what?" asked the shopwalker, somewhat suspiciously. "A rolling pin," was the answer.