SWEETMEATS FOR CHILDREN.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 28 January 1908, Page 7

SWEETMEATS FOR CHILDREN.

EVERTOX TOFFEE:. This delicious and wholesome sweet is made with one pound of powdered loaf sugar, a quarter of a pound of butter, one teacupful of water, and six drops of essence of lemon. Put the water and sugar into a new saucepan and beat the butter to a cream. Wien the sugar is quite dissolved, add the butter, and keep stirring the mixture over the fire until it sets. When a little is poured on a buttered dish to try. just before the toffee is done, add the essence of lemon. Pour it into a buttered platter, and when cool it will easily separate from the dish. This same sweet may be made into but-ter-scotch by using brown sugar instead (ii white, ami half an. ounce (»f ginger instead of lemon flavouring. TURKISH DELIGHT. Soak one ounce of gelatine in half a cupful of cold water for two hours then put it into a pan with one Pound of white sugar, one teaspoonful of citric acid, and three-quarters of a cupful of cold water. Boil this for ten minutes, then add one teasp<>onfiil ( »f Iciimn extract. Pour the mixture through muslin on to two dinner plates, watted with cold water Colour one plateful pink with a few drops of cochineal, and add one ounce of almonds (blanched and chopped). Leave the mixture in a cool place till it is quite firm, then cut it into small squares, and roll it in plenty ot sifted confectioner's sugar.