Favourite Sweetmeats.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7853, 15 July 1911, Page 13

Favourite Sweetmeats.

COAT HANGER.

English Nougat. Ingredients: Half a pound of whole almonds, three-quarters of a pound of cane loaf sugar, one lemon. Throw the almonds into boiling water, when the skins will slip off easily, shred them finely, and place on a tin in the oven to gei hot without browning. Place the sugar in a pan with the juice* of half a small lemon, and let it dissoly'? over a gentle heat, stirring continually with a spatula. Increase the heat a little and stir more quickly, as the sugar begins to form white pearls on its surface, add the heated almonds, mix well, then turn the mixture out on to a greased tin. Press it fiat with a cut lemon, mark in squares, and when cold break into pieces. Time, twenty minutes; coat, lOd. aXc •fh ih ?► Ginger Lozenges. Ingredients: Ono ounce of gum trai gacanvh, two ounces of water (half a gill), one and a half pounds of icing sugar, ono tablespoonful of essence of ginger. Dissolve the gum in the water, which may be wanned. Work it on a slab until it becomes elastic, add the sugar and ginger, form into a dry paste, and roll it out. Cut into lozenges with a tin cutter, and place on sugared paper to dry. Time, half an hour; cost, Is 2d. jjit 3yj. rfe Fruit Caramels. Ingredients: Two pounds of Domerara sugar, one small pot of either black currant or crab-apple jelly (about a quarter of a pound), three ounces of butter,' ono large tablespoonful of cold water. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the rest of ingredients, and boil till crisp, a'bout half an hour, stirring frequently. This caramel is allowed, to be grainy, so may bo stirred. Pour out r*x to buttered tins, and when set cut into squares. Time, half an hour; cost, le Id. * * * Orange Drops. Ingredients; Two largo juicy oranges, half a saltspoonlul of tartaric acid, about six ounces of confectioner's or best icing su^ar. urate the rind of one orange and squeeze aarul strain the juice of both. Mix together, adding the acid and a teaspoonful of cold water. Stir in as much icing sugar as will make a dry paste, sugar the hands well, roll the paste into small balls, and lay' out to dry. Cost, about 6d. *Xc >Xc *ft- -TF -fb Cinnamon Candy. Ingredients r Ono pound of golden syrup, two pounds of raw brown sugar, quarter of a pound of butter, quarter of a pound of chopped Brazil nuts, on© teaspoonful of vanilla essence. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add rirgar and syrup, and boil, for ton miuites, stir in cinnamon with vanilla and ooil again- until it will snap if a little s put in cold water. Place the nuts on - t. buitered tin, and pour over them the sugar in a thin layer. Break in pieces -vhen nearly cold. Time, about half an t mur; cost, Is. ■ t

A TRUE FABLE. a . a r A FROWN went scowling down the street - /A one pleasant morn in May, And, boys, will you believe it?—every one he met that day, H Man, woman, lad and lassie—it is queer; but it is true — As soon as they came near him, went off a-frowning, too! Nest day a smile went beaming down that ? that very selfsame street, f And every single person that it winsomely s did meet, Man, woman, lad and lassie—and it went f. for many a mile—--1 Jogged homeward all a-happy, wearing - each a pleasant smile! 3 • j Now from this little fable it is very plain to see, 1 There's no one but has influence, whoever ho may bo; » And if you are’ Cross .and crabbed, you make others crabbed, too, 3 And if you smile on others, they will like- , wise smile on you! £ —Adelbert P. Caldwell, i« * # 1 Friendship is one of the largest factors ♦ of success not only in the social but also 1 ; in the commercial and political worlds. 3 Many a merchant is carried through a 1 crisis by his friends when tho strict laws v of business would have dropped him into ruin.

An emergency coat lianger when you are away from homo is easily made by tightly rolling a newspaper, tying it securely in the middle with heavy.cord and finishing with a cord loop to attach it to a convenient hook or nail. This is better for the coat than simply throwing it into the nearest available place, and is contrived in a minuto with materials always at hand.