Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-20
How To Make
Tasty I my Cakes
By Sister Mary

There arc times when nearly
every woman wants lust some
thing to serve to a large group OF
women in the afternoon. The host
ess without a maid may find even
a cup of tea too much Of an under
taking for a large number of guests
and will prefer something that can
be prepared and placed on plates
ready to serve before the meeting
begins.
Homemade candy is always APP
preciated but this involves hours of
tedious as we'll as hard work, so why
not serve II of the following defect
able sweetmeats? These are about
two bites more than candy but are
! quite rich and sweet enough to serve
as a confection without tea.
This rule for Hard Tack VIII
serve about thirty-persons.
Hard Tack
Two eggs, l cup sugar, / cup Hour
| cup dates, l cup walnut meats, a
teaspoon soda. q teaspoon salt.
Beat eggs until light with a dover
beater. Beat in sugar. Sift soda
with Hour and salt. Beat into first
mixture. Add dates stoned and cut
in small pieces, and nuts chopped or
cut in small pieces. Mix well and
spread very thinly on the bottom oil
a well oiled and Toured dripping
pan or cookie sheet. Bake twelve
minutes in a hot oven. Remove from
oven, cut in long narrow bars and
let cool on the molding board.
A plat of hard tack and cocoanut
m~acaroons makes an attractive COM
bination.
Cocoanut Macaroons
Two eggs (whites). q cup shred
! ded cocoanut, / tablespoon corn
| starch, l teaspoon vanilla.
Beat whites of eggs until stiff and
dry. Beat in sugar. Put in top OF
double boiler over hot water. When
lukewarm add cocoanut, cornstarch
| and vanilla, Mix well and drop
from a small spoon onto sheets of
oiled paper. Bake in a slow oven
until tops are lightly Drowned.
Hickaroons
One cup hickory nut meats, l cup
light brown sugar, L egg, l cup
flour, a teaspoon salt. II teaspoon
vanilla.
Pecans or English walnuts can be
used instead of hickory nuts.
Chop nuts. Beat egg until very
light with sugar. d Hour. salt,
nut and vanilla. Mix well. Roll and
cut with a tiny cutter or form into
small balls and flatten with the in
gers. Bake in a slow oven.
These CONNECTIONS have crackers
| for foundation. They require even
less work than the two little nut
! affairs.
Fresh crisp oyster crackers are
split in halves and filled with jelly.
candied fruit, a plump stoned raisln
or half n ~teaspoonful of rich vanilla
butter cream. Put halves together
and dip in melted confectioner's
chocolate. The small sized oyster
crackers make the daintiest affairs
Perfectly fresh marshmallows a be
cut in quarters and used for filings.
Saratoga fakes are spread with an
egg mixture and Drowned in the
oven to make a Marguerite"
Marguerites
One egg (white), 3 tablespoons
sugar, u cup chopped nut meats
II cup chopped and seeded raisins
Is teaspoon salt, " teaspoon vanilla
Beat white of egg until stiff and
dry. Beat in sugar. Stir in nuts
and raisins and spread on crackers
Bake in a hot oven until brown.
Another cracker goodie ic made
with marshmallows. Small square
or round waters are chosen for these
Cut marshmallows in halves. Put
! half n nut meat in the center of each
wafer, cover with half a marshmal-
low and put in a hot oven or under
the broiler to brown and puff the
mallow. These are prepared, all but
the browning, early in the day.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)