St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
A STICKY TIME.

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| A STICKY TIME.
How Us Children Made Molasses Candy
| What Mamma Says.
eve wanted to make some molasses
candy. Mamma didn't like to let us,
| for Bridget was out, and there was no
| one to see to us, so she was afraid we'd
| burn ourselves; but we coaxed, and she
says she hates to say no to us little
| ones.
''She told me to take saucepan and
| fill it half full of molasses. thought
it ought to be fuller than that, so l put
it almost full
Papa had given us ten cents to buy
some peanuts to put in the candy; so L
put the molasses on the stove, and we
all sat down to shell the peanuts.
"When we were most done, ] heard
some thing 60 siz-z-z-z, Gerry loud, and
we all jumped up, and it was the mo-
lasses boiling over. 1t was all over the
stove. i was scared, but l took the
long handle of the saucepan and car
ried it to the table. Then it didn' t boil
over any more, but it spilled all the
way, and we all stepped in it, and it
was very sticky.
"And when we walked about the
floor, that was very sticky, too. And
there was dreadful smell and dread
full smoke.
mamma came down to see, and she
saw, and she looked with her hands up.
She said she couldn't leave the baby
again, and we must be careful and
keep the molasses ON the back of the
stove. Then it didn't boil over any
more.
"When we all jumped up, the pea
nuts all fell down. When we picked
them up, they were all sticky. The
shells stuck to the nuts, but Tom said
they wouldn't show in the candy.
1--WE put the peanuts in, and tasted
to see if it was done; but it burned us.
and we all cried.
81 took some in a saucer to ask man.
ma if it was done. l spilled it in the
hall and on the stairs, but it was so
dark there it didn't show at all. Nam
ma said it wasn't done, SO we boiled it
some more.
''Then | got the big meat dish and
poured it all in. We setit outdoors to
cool. We knew when it was cool, for
Rover came and licked it before we
could drive him away.
at was very hard and it wouldn't
come off the dish. Mamma had told me
to put some butter on the dish first, but
I forgot it. I put some on then, but it
didn't do a bit of good.
Eat last Tom got the hammer and
hammered it. Then it broke all to
pieces. The dish broke, too.
when we got the candy off the
pieces, we worked it to get it white.
| dropped mine in the wood-box and
got some little chips on it. They
wouldn't come of. but when l went on
working it, they didn't show any. Tom
made a long string with his, and
jumped the rope with it.
1.-The candy didn't get very white.
When we were all tired of working it,
I went to papa's desk to get some nice
white paper to put it on. [ went to
ask sister Laura for some thread, but
she was out, so hunted in her work
basket and got it myself | tied up
some little parcels of the candy.
Then we took some to mamma and
grandmother, and they We're very
much obliged to MS, indeed, but said
they wouldn't take it from us.
tom has had to have his hair cut
very short. Elsie cries every time her
hair is combed.
GRANDMOTHER says she can't step
anywhere in the house but what It's
sticky. Papa says all the paper in his
desk is sticky. Sister Laura says all
the thread in her basket is sticky.
Bridget says every thing everywhere Is
sticky.
Mamma says we had better not
make any more molasses candy 1os q
long time. - Youths Companion.