The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-04
Topics Of the
Home and
Household.
Sweetmeats for Dessert.

| . :, - ""he Nohdyt Audkt some OF Tn
following kinds and serve them instea,
OF sweet dessert, suggests the Unite,
States food administration.
Partisan Sweets-Put through tn
meat chopper one pound of prepare,
dates, figs and nut meats. Add one ia
blespoon orange juice, a little grated
orange peel and one.fourth cup of hone,
or syrup. Mould into balls and roll /,
chopped nuts or cocoanut or chocolate
This mixture may be packed in an oilec
TIN, put under weight until firm. ther
cut In any shape desired. Melted choco
late may be added to mixture befor,
moulding if desired.
Stuffed Prunes- Steam pound pr1ne,
ana remove stones. Stuff part of thu
prunes, each with another prune, stuff
Others with chopped sailed nuts, or stuff
with mixture Of cup each raisins and
walnuts and few candied cherries. An,
other suggestion is to stuff prunes with
stih orange marmalade.
Peanut Brittle cup white svrun.
tablespoon vinegar, u teaspoon salt. /
teaspoon vanilla, | cup freshly roasted
peanuts, halved. Cook the syrup, vine.
gar and salt in saucepan until a little
cropped in cold water forms a soft ball
Put the peanuts and this syrup into an
iron skillet and stir until the syrup he.
comes golden brown. Remove from the
nre and stir in vanilla. Have ready a
shallow buttered pan, pour candy in and
spread out in thin sheet Allow to cool,
then remove from pan and crack into
pieces.
Candied Drirambol cup cooking APP
pies, u cup syrup, u cup water, nuts.
Cook apples as for sauce Add IL Gun
corn syrup and cook until a thick paste.
Nuts may be added. Spread out in but
tered pan, Dry out in oven or over oven
for one to two days. Use other fruits
in the same way.
The Housewives stunt
A billion and half jars of fruit and
vegetables this summer and fall-that IL
the stunt" Uncle Sam has set for the
housewives of Americai
Last year American women and girls
put up over half billion cans of fruit
and vegetables. This year the war pro-
gram OF the nation has increased tremen.
dously Hundreds Of thousands of fight.
ers are crossing the ocean every month.
Each Of these men will need large
of canned goods. Millions OF
others are going to our training camps
this winter. For each one Uncle Sam
must provide supply of fruits and vege-
tables.
Therefore it is easy to realize that
there will be tremendously increased
demand for commercial canned goods
next winter and that there is an actual
need for American housewives to put M
these billion and half jars of home.
,anned fruits and vegetables. With this
Tor use in the homes, all the produce the
factories are canning now, running day
and night, can go to our soldiers and the
hungry people of Europe
Do not let the sugar rationing discour
lge you from doing your share You are
untitled TO the sugar you need for can
iing and preserving, aside from your
.wo-pound ration. II is important to
an vegetables AS we'll as fruit, and veQe.
tbles do not require sugar.
Much more will be accomplished il can
hing is not looked upon as ceremony
lpsetting the whole household for DAYS
m end. It can be dovetailed in. a bit at
time, without causing any very great
rouble.
The principal thing is to understand
'our method thoroughly Then don't |
worry about results. If you perform
ach step correctly your produce will
eep as long as you want it.
Of one thing be certain If you want
uecess Begin right by having your
ruit and vegetables fresh, and the rub.
er bands for the cans new and freshly
tipped in boiling water before using
he jars also should sterilized, for il
hey contain live germs your produce
I'LL certainly spoil. that's Just com
lon sense, but the lack Of the precaution
! the key to many disappointments in
aiming, Dorothy Dexter
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