The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-23
RAINY DAY ADJUSTMENTS.
Sweets 10 While Away Dull Hours
Home Confectionery.

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Rainy day amusements are always
in demand, and especially for thai
time OF year when it is hardly colo
enough for the great fires, but one Is
very willing TO have a little blaze
upon the hearth, or feels nodisinclina'
ton to the neighborhood OF an argand
gas burner. One Of the ~pleasantesl
OF these amusements, in the begin
ming and in the end, is that OF making
candy in the dining room-the cara
mel. the glace walnut, and the vari-
Gus kinds of nougat. III one has
fixture for the drop light OF h dln-
ing table, where one is used, or, II
there is no gas, with an alcohol lamp,
one may accomplish some delicate
work in sugar that a confectioner
need not be ashamed OF.
1t is a good plan to remove the
table cloth and replace it by a coarseI
cover. and to have your few utensils
kept for the purpose. Begin, then,
by bringing a little water to boil in
your saucepan while you are Smelling
about a quarter of a pound of al
IuOuQSs 1IfOW lAl[At Inv Wv ~
water for a moment or two; then pour
out into a small wire sieve held over a
bowl, when you can easily rub OIL the
skins-the ~blanching process. Have
them then put into the refrigerator.
If spread out one by one, as they las
ily can be by passing the hand over
them, and the dish set fiat upon the
ice, they will be cool enough presently
-. ..& s.&.x IAn. nrr. gfrsr.u with a
sharp knife, after which they are best
sent out 10 the kitchen and put into
the oven for a very few minutes to dry
off well.
As soon as your almonds are thus
made ready, put into your saucepan a
quarter of a pound or four heaping
tablespoonfuls OF sugar-not the con-
fectioner's fine sugar, but the common
white granulated-with n dessert
spoonful of water only, and stir II
till it is quite melted; some one else
will in the meantime have buttered
for you a very shallow pan or other
tin dish. The moment that your
sugar is thoroughly melted, and be-
fore it has a chance TO boil, throw in
your almonds, continue to stir Tor
about a minute, and then pour out
and put on the cool window ledge to
set and you will have a delicate
nougat, good enough for any sweet
tooth.
This may be varied by using any
nuts attainable, always excepting pea
nuts, which vulgarize and injure the
flavor of any candy, spreading them
out over the bottom of the buttered
pam, and putting four tablespoonfuls
of water to the same amount OF sugar
as before, bringing it not only to the
melting but to the boiling point, and
pouring it out evenly over the nuts.
Another and at nee richer and
more delicate sort a be made with
a little more trouble by powdering
and sitting an ounce of gum arabic,
and setting it away for half an hour
in four tablespoonfuls of water, and
then gradually heat it by setting il
inside a larger vessel of boiling water
till the gum dissolves. AT this, strain
the result through a fine wire sieve
upon three very heaping tablespoon
fuls, or five level ones, of confec-
TONER'S sugar, and stir it over the fire
till 1t turns white and thick like a
laundress's starch when she pours on
boiling water.
While you are stirring this, which
should be during a good half hour, OF
a little more, let some one else beat
up about half the white of an egg (t
increases the pleasure if the work be
divided among severaD, adding TO il
at the last instant half a teaspoonfu'
of vanilla, or as much rose water, il
preferred, and stir this in just Is the
sugar and gum arabic are taken from
the fire, and then add at once a quar-
ter of a pound of already blanchec
and minced sweet almonds, with two
or three bitter ones to heighten tbs
flavor. Let whatever dish you pouI
it into then be well Toured with fint
sifted flour, with corn starch, or mai
zena, or arrowroot. as cooks flour thei
biscuit pans, and set it away to COOL
HdTper'S Bazdr.
If at First You Do Succeed TRY Again.
Miss Elizabeth was q very peculia
woman. She had a great deal 0
sense. Not that she was differen
from other women in this respect, bu
she had so much Of it that it surprises
many young men.
One day young Robinson went t
call on her. Young Robinson was ais
very sensible. He and Miss Elizabetl
We're well matched. They could tai
together on any number of subjects
and they knew just when and wher
to stop, just what to say and wha
not to say. On this particular da,
there was a long story in the after
noon papers known as Jack tn
Kisser, who bothered many youn
women and girls in the streets b,
catching them and kissing them.
Miss Elizabeth said she did nc
think that a girl could be kissed b
any man unlaSs she wantad him I