OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 9

OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER

I JAM TOFFEE Have you ever tried jam toffee, children? It takes only ten minutes to make, and is if you use. strawberry jam. A nice* big strawberry in the middle of a piece of toffee is a change from nuts. Take a spoon for measuring, and for every spoonful of jam you put into your saucepan put in two spoousfub of granulated sugar. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon over a low gas, and be very careful it does not burn: do not leave if an instant. Boil for eight or icn minutes, then pour into a buttered fin, or place little rocky heaps in a row, and leave the toffee til! it is quite cold. MIKE'S BRAN PIE Mike the monkey sat. in a coconut tree and watched Sonny all the afternoon. Sonny was having a party in his garden. and there was a. bran-pie which interested Mike so much that he determined to have one himself. So back he went to the jungle and sent out invitations to his bran-pie. Then he became very worried. "My goodness," he thought, "I shall have to give presents to my guests! I must think of a plan by which I can get out of that, because 1 want the presents myself." He thought all day, and an idea came lo him in the night. Next morning Mike was very busy. "Mike's collecting lovely present? for his fran-pie," said the jungle folk. "Fruit, and nuts, and all sorts of whatnots." They Mere very excited, and when the great day arrived -they' were quite. readv to do justice to his wonderful feast. Now Mike's bran-pie was a queer one. He had put his presents on the ground.... and . built a stone pie mer them, [and the. stones were stuck togetherl l \with'?<*lay. There was a hole in the top of the pie, and Mike had made it so small that nobody but Prim the parrot, could get a claw through it. He would say that their hands were so big that- they could not get his presents! When Mike's friends saw the pic, • hey thought it muftt be a trap fo tliev begged Mike to ha*e the first dip' In went Mike's little paw. but when he got. hold of a grape fruit he could not pull it out because the hole was too •-mall! "Trapped vouself!" laughed the juncle folk. How they teased him! And Mike sat sadly by his bran-pie, f«>r be never thought of pulling it down, and he was sorry he had been eo greedy. "Tr doesn't pay to be selrkh," thought Mike. More from The Wendy Hut v i]| be found on no'ie 10.