Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

HOME-MADE SWEETS

HAVE PUBLIC IMPORTANCE. TRY THESE FOR FAIRS AND GARDEN PARTIES. Home-made sweets have a public importance these days, when so many lairs and garden parties in aid of the war effort are held. The sweets stall is always one of the most popular, so if you are having a hand in one these suggestions might help you: — Chocolate Fudge. Required:—loz butter, Alb Demerara sugar, j pint milk, 1 tablespoon melted chocolate. Put the butter, sugar and milk into a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring all the time. Add the chocolate and boil for about five minutes. Remove from the fire and stir until the mixture begins to thicken, then pour immediately into a buttered tin. When cool mark off into squares, but do not turn out the tin until quite cold. Stuffed Dates. Shred finely lib blanched almonds. Make a caramel of lOoz sugar and one pint water, mix it with the almonds and work until a stiff, hard mixture is obtained. Fill some stoned dates, which should be rolled in coarse sugar, with this mixture. Marzipan Potatoes. Sift jib icing sugar and mix with 6 ounces ground almonds and 1 dessertspoon lemon juice. Beat an egg until light and frothy and add sufficient to the mixture to form into a firm paste. Roll the marzipan into small shapes, cover with fine chocolate powder, make a few “eyes” with a fork and leave to dry. Peppermint Creams. 1 Beat the white of an egg into a basin and mix with it some essence of peppermint. Into this, stir by degrees a pound of. finest icing sugar, beating it thoroughly till the mixture looks glace and sufficiently pliable to be moulded into balls. Roll with a glass roller and cut out with a pastry cutter. Dry and keep from the air till required.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411201.2.5.6

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1941, Page 2

Word count
Tapeke kupu
306

HOME-MADE SWEETS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1941, Page 2

HOME-MADE SWEETS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1941, Page 2

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert