OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)

OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER.

ALMONDS AND RAISINS. Take a bar of good plain chocolate; break it up, put it in a jar, cover with a ©aucer, and stand the jar in a saucepan in which there is about an inch of boiling water. Place the saucepan near gentle heat, and wait till the chocolate has dissolved. When removing the saucer to look at the chocolate, be careful that no drops of water caused by the steam fall into the jar. When the chocolate is melted, take a long pin, stick each almond and raisin separately on the point and dip it into the jar. Be sure it ie well coated, leave to dry on a slightly buttered plate. Push each sweet off the pin with another pin, as they mark if touched with the fingers. THE INK-POT GOBLIN. There’s such a horrid Goblin, The hatefullcst of Sprites, Who lives inside my ink-pot, And loves to give me frights. Just when I’m nicely settled, My lessons to begin, The Ink-Pot Goblin hurries out, With roguish, naughty grin! He jumps on to my pen-nib, And splash! He makes a spot, Which spreads, across the paper, Before I’ve time to blot. And when, with ink-eraser I’ve rubbed it clean once more, Slip! slop! That wicked little imp Sends smudges on the floor. When to my desk comes teacher, She scolds the mess to see; Then takes my pen to show me How tidy she can be. And, oh! I wish the Goblin Would make her in a rage— But no! He waits until she’s gone, Then jigs across the page!

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