The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-09
Sweets Without Sugar.

| oWeets WITHOUT sugar.
Partisan Sweets-Put through the
/ meat chopper | pound of prepared
dates, figs and nut meats. Add / Ia
blespoon orange juice, little grated
orange peel and u cup of honey or
| syrup. Mold into balls and roll in
chopped nuts or cocoanut or chocolate.
This mixture may be packed in an
oiled tin, put under weight until firm,
then cut in any shape desired Melted
chocolate may be added to mixture be-
fore molding.
Chocolate Dainties or Bitter Sweets
Melt bitter sweet chocolate in double
boiler, remove from fire ard beat until
cool. In this dip nuts or sweet fruits
and place on oiled paper.
Sailed Nuts-Remove skins from
shelled nuts if desired, depending on
kind of nuts. Put little vegetable
fat in frying pan. Add nuts and fry
until delicately Drowned, stirring con-
stantly. Remove from small SKINNER.
Drain on paper and sprinkle with salt.
Tutti Frutti Balls cup pnifed rice
or corn. cup seedIess rasiins, cup
stoned dates, cup figs, n cup chopped
nut meats, tablespoon chopped an
gelica or citron, " cup chopped candied
orange peel, teaspoons vanilla ex.
tract. Put rice, fruits, peel and nut
meats through chopper. stir well.
adding the extract. Make into small
balls and allow to dry. Roll in shred
ded coeoanut.
Stuffed Dates--Use the best dates.
Remove the stones, fill with peanuts.
walnuts, chickory nuts or any nuts
available. Peanut butter makes a good
filling that is different Press dates in |
shape and roll in chopped nuts, cocoa.
nut or a mixture OF cocoa and powdered |
cinnamon.
Stuffed Prunes-Steam pound of
prunes and remove stones. Stuff part /
Of the prtmes, each with another prune,
stuff others with chopped sailed nuts,
Or stuff with a mixture of | cup each
raislns and walnuts and few candied
cherries. Another suggestion is to stuff
1runes with stiff orange marmalade.
Pop Corn Balls--l cup syrup, Ia
olespoOn vinegar, , to quarts of
popped corn. Boil together the syrup
md vinegar until syrup hardens when
iropped in cold water. Pour over fresh
y popped corn and mould into balls
II fancy shapes. Either honey. maple
yrup, molssses, white cane syrup or ,
orn syrup may be used.
Hunky Dory-2 cups popped corn, !
up pecan or walnut meats, cakes |
weet chocolate; 2 tablespoons rich
ream. Break the chocolate into small /;
icces and melt it over hot water. As
con as it is melted add the cream.
orn and nuts. Stir quickly with a
liver fork and lift out in small humps.
lace on waxed paper to dry.
Peanut Brittle cup white corn e
yrup, tablespoon vinegar, u tea
poon salt, | teaspoon vanilla, cup I
reshly roasted peanuts halved. Cook $
ne corn syrup, vinegar and salt in
aucepan until little dropped in cold !
alter forms a soft ball Put the pea P
uts and this syrup into an iron skill
I and stir until the syrup becomes K
olden brown. Remove from the fire b
nd stir in vanilla. Have ready a shall.
w buttered pan, pour candy in and =
,read out in a thin sheet Allow TO
'ol, then remove from pan and crack
TO pieces.
Syrup Nougatines-Boil ~ cups OF
ght colored syrup and = cup water TO
- degrees I. or until it forms firm
III when tried in cold water. Pour
owly into a well-beaten white of an
q, beating constantly with a wire
hisk. Place bowl over water kept
81 below the boiling point and fold
ID turn 3 or minutes. Remove from
e. add Y teaspoon vanilla or other
Iyoring, and continue folding until
ixture is nearly cool. Add l cup Ct
oppcd sailed peanuts or a mixture
any desired candied fruits and nut
read "a inch thick on wax paper. GOV
with wax paper and cut in rectangu-
/ pieces
Candied Apple or Fruit pound
Piles (which do not cook readilyl |
81 and cut into size desired. Place
! cup Of syrup and boil slowly until |
pies become transparent. Take apple /
{ piece at a time and drain on fork /
{ stand on wax paper to hours. Il
J in finely chopped eocoanut. Other II
hts. pineapple, pears and ounces III
y be used in place Of apples. Syrups II
ich have given good results with
above fruits; sorghum honey. sorg- |.
m and glucose fhalf and half, corn.
pie. cane. Fruit j. improved If al
red 70 stand in syrup overnight be
E draining.
Dorothy Dexter.