Evening star., 1926-10-22

| Ioi dS pOSSiDlS. w men lHC guests
are tired of romping frolics, let the
lights be turned low and have some
| one ready to tell thrilling ghost
| stories.
Toasted marshma llows are among
the favorite confections for this oc-
| casion. A delightful pastime is candy
pulling, and while 1t is likely to be
sticky business. it Is no end of fun.
Boy and girl partners should engage
In this. No butter or -four should be
used on the hands. If the hands are
too warm and moist. wipe them dry
and dust them with confectioner S
sugar. Use only the tips of the fin-
gers as much as possible. Keen one
hand near the body and extend the
other hand at arms length Then
bring the two ends of the candy and
the middle together and pull to arm 8
length again.
Pulled sugar candy: Dissolve two
pounds of lump sugar in one cupfui
OF water off the fire. When dissolved
thoroughly, add one-fourth teaspoon
full of cream of tartar and place on
the fire. Boil rapidly to the crack
stage. or 200 degrees, and remove
at once from the fire. Dip the pan
In cold water to stop the boiling
and pour the syrup onto an oiled
platter. AS the edges cool. turn
them with a buttered knife to the
center of the plate. When cool
enough to handle, gather into a ball
and pull. Add any desired f1avoring,
pull into long strip, cut in neat
pieces with buftered scissors, and roll
into cylinder shapes.
Nougatine Cook together two cum.
fuls of granulated sugar, one cupful
Of brown sugar, one-half cupful of
corn sirup and two-thirds cupful Of
water to a soft-ball stage. Pour
gradually onto the stiffy beaten
whites of two eggs. add two-thirds
oupful of broken nut meats. two
thirds cupful of candied fruit chop
ped and one teaspoonful of almond
or vanilla favoring. Turn into deep
huttered pans, cool and, mark in
squares.
Party Ice Creams.
For a chidren's party: Orange sur.
prises greatly please children. Cut
some large navel oranges into four
exact quarters. Remove the fruit
pulp from three Of the quarters. Fill
the first quarter with very sweet and
stiff1y whipped cream. the second with
orange gelatin, the third with vanilla
ice cream and In the remaining quar-.
ter leave the orange pulp itself. The
four sections now should be tied tight
ly together with dark green >,baby
ribbon.
For an Autumn luncheon: Make
chrysanthemum receptacle for hold
ing each portion of ice cream. Buy
the paper cups that are sold by fancy
grocers and caterers, and are about
the size of glass punch cups. Next
four of
Two should he 10 inches in diameter.
and two inches. Fringe the edges
of all four in quarter-inch frngeS.
two and ehalf inches deep. Take
the point of each fringe and roll it
toward the center, over the end of a
knitting needle. This produces the
curly effect of chrysa mt hemum petals.
Paste the four circles of tissue paper
on the bottom of the cup. pasting the
two smallest first. Draw the curly
petals up over the rim. and you have
an extremely pretty receptacle for ice
cream. These cups are also effective
in pink.
For card party: Serve any white
ice cream in an ohlong shape. the
length and width of A playing card.
and cut one inch thick Press red
hearts and diamonds into the ohlong
to initiate the spots. These may be
cut out Of red maraschino cherries, or
red candy hearts may be purchased
from confectioner.
Party Service Trays.
Pressed flowers mounted on linen is
one method of decoration used in max
ing very attractive trays. Pressing
and mounting the flowers requires so
little work that any hostess may
easily change the decoration to har-
monize with any particular color
scheme. Wild flowers. violets ferns,
sea mosses, and butterflies. mounted
under glass, are far more beautiful
than anything one could embroider or
paint The flowers should be pressed
while fresh. between sheets of hlotting
paper, under a weight Do not dis
turh them for several days, then care
fully place them between sheets of
white paper and lay away between the
leaves of large book or in box
until ready for use.
The tray itself may he an ordinary
picture frame with handles added,
which may he bought at any hard
ware store for few cents. A mat
the size of the fra me should he covered
with linen and the pressed flowers Sc
cured in place by applying a little
library paste to the under side of the
center Of the flower. fern or other
decoration. DO not put any paste on
petals or stems. Yellow and purple
flowers keep their color we'll. and
daisies or marguerites are very effec-
tive when mounted.
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