Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-11

reaches the soft-b stage, remove 1t
from the fire and set the kettle In
cold water. After the mixture cools,
beat it until it is creamy, then add
one tablespoonful of milk, set 1t back
on the fire and keep 1t there until it
melts. Stir in one and one-half cup
fulS of popped corn and one teaspoon
full Of vanilla. Pour 1t into buttered
tins, and when it is cool cut it in small
squares.
Popcorn Dolls.-Fold a square of
mosquito netting together and cut II
in the form of rag doll. These may
be as large or as small as you wish.
| Outline and catch the edges together
with red crochet cotton, leaving
short space at the side into which the
puffy white popcorn can be placed.
After the doll Is properly stuffed, sew
up the slit to correspond with the rest
of the red stitching. Mark eyes, nose,
mouth and ears with red cotton. max
ing the features as near like those of
q kewpie doll as possible. Fasten a
| tuft Of the red cotton on the top of
the head to represent the hair.
Chocolate Popcorn Balls.-Add to
one and one-half cupfuls Of sugar two
thirds cupful Of water and one-third
cupful of glucose. Let the mixture
stand until the sugar Is dissolved,
then cook 1t without stirring until 1t
will form a hard ball when dropped
in cold water. Add one-third cupful
of molasses and three tablespoonfuls
of butter. and stir the candy constant
ly until it is brittle when dropped in
cold water. Remove the kettle from
the fire and add three squares of
chocolate that have been melted over
hot water, and one teaSpoonful of va
nilla. Stir the sirup until the choco-
late is evenly distributed, then pour
it over four quarts of popped corn.
The corn will pop quickly If 1t has
been left in the refrigerator for a
while to cool. When the candy is
sufficiently cool mold it into little
balls. White popcorn balls are made
by combining one heaping tablespoon
full of butter. three tablespoonfuls OF
water and one cupful of granulated
sugar. and adding two quarts of
popped corn when the sirup has
reached the brittle stage.
Dreamed Fruits.
Grease a small baking pan and
place a layer of almonds on the bot
tom, a layer of maraschino cherries,
layer of walnut meats, a layer of
dates, a layer of pecan nuts and a
layer of figs. Put three cupfuls of
granulated sugar in frying pan and
stir constantly over a fire until 1t
melts. Pour this over the layers of
fruits and nuts. When cold cut into
strips.
Pineapple Creams.-Beat the white
of one egg very stiff and add one-half
a cupful of honey and four cupfuls of
powdered sugar. Beat the sugar in
slowly and stir until quite stiff and
creamy. Work half a cupful of
chopped canned pineapple into the
mixture and knead it in wet napkin.
Mold these in cone shapes and place
a whole nut meat on top of each.
GIace Fruits and Nuts.
Have some grapes or orange sec
nuts, almonds or walnuts shelled. In
case you use cheStnuts, boil them in
water until tender, then simmer for
a while in thin sugar and water
strip, so that they will he slightly
sweetened. To make the glace sugar.
boil together one-half pound of cut
sugar and one-half cupful OF water
until little dropped in cold water
Immediately becomes brittle. Pick up
each piece of fruit or nut separately
with a candy dipper or long handled
sugar tongs. Dip very gently into
the boiled sugar, then lay on waxed
paper or on an oiled platter to set.
Halves of nuts can be pressed into a
small ball of almond paste or of fon-
dant and then dipped into the glace
sugar.
Fancy Small Cakes.
Devils Food Patties.-To a cupful
of milk add four ounces OF bitter choc-
oAte. and cook in a double boiler until
thick and smooth. Beat half cupful
of butter to a cream. Add gradually
one and one-half cupfuls of sugar and
the yolk of three eggs. Add the choc-
| olate mixture and two cupfuls of
pastry flour, with which two rounded
| teaspoonfuls of baking powder have
been sifted. Mix well and stir in the
well beaten whites of the three eggs.
Bake in small patty tins and coat
| with chocolate icing.
! Brazil Merinsues.-Beat the whites
OF three eggs with pinch of salt. Add
gradually two cupfuls of powdered
| sugar, flavor with one teaspoonful of
| lemon juice. and stir in one cupful
| of chopped Brazil nuts. Drop from a
| teaspoon onto we'll creased baking
pans, and make in a very slow oven
for about one hour.
Cocoanut Drops.-Beat the whites of
| two eggs to a stiff froth, and add a
cupfu1 of powdered sugar and a few
| drops of vanilla. When very stiff
| beat in gradually one and one-half
cupfuls of grated cocoanut, and drop
| on creased tins. Bake for Is minutes
| in a brisk oven.
Walnut Cookies.-Take half cupful
of butter, one cupful of sugar. two
| eggs, one cupful of walnuts, two cup
| fuls of flour, two level teaspoonfuls
OF baking powder and one cupful of
| milk. Mix as for cake, drop on a
buttered pan and bake.