The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-14
CANDY COMES IN AS.
 LENT GOES OUT
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Ponder During the
 Lenten Season
MAKE YOUR OWN

 hungry for candy, now that Lent is over, than you could "shake a stick att! This, of course, provid- ed you happen to be given to tick-shaking. Even if you are not, you ard sure to be given to candy, making, for 1t is one of the hap piest and "most fun" of all the kitchen arts. It is not work, 1t is actually a pastime, and especially popular just now, when April showery weather demands that all sports be indoor ones.
 Child-training authorities are now endorsing candy-making for children. pointing out that 1t teaches them to use their hands deftly, and also to cook. Certainly it is one form of cooking the young hopefuls will enjoy for they are so anxious to eat the results! Even for adults, candymaking may rightly be reckoned child's play, If you know the secret of having it turn out right every sin gle time. Home confectioners whose candy is creamy, smooth, and free frone grains and sugar. mess, recommend using com bination of sugar and karo in the ingredients, using light or dark karo according to the type of candy. Too, candies which con- tain karo are rich in dextrose, the valuable energy-food element. and are therefore particularly health full for children.
 You are not really master of candy making until you can make several kinds. You should know how to make at least one variety of each type: chevy, creamy, soft. and hard. If you are looking for sure-fire recipes, these will please you-and tickle your sweet tooth nightly.
 Grapefruit Penuche
 Unusual Creamy Candy)
 No. can grapefruit
 3 tbsp. sugar
 cups brown sugar
 3,cup water r.
 tbsp. white karo
 tbsp. butter
 1s cup oceans
 2-3 cup condensed milk
 Cook grapefruit and 3 table spoons white sugar until they form a thick jam. Mix brown sugar milk, water. karo and butter and cook over low fire, stirring con- stantly and not letting 1t come to boil until the sugar particles are all dissolved. Cook until little of the syrup tested in cold water will form a soft ball; add grapefruit and cook two minutes longer. Cool until candy begins to be sticky and thick, then beat until almost solid. Add nutm eats, scoop out on but tered platter.
 (Chewy Seaside Confection)
 teasp. soda
 1 at. dark karO
 2 tbsp. lemon juice
 Put syrup into saucepan and cook until temperature Is 270 de- grees F., or when tried in cold wa ter, it will be slightly brittle. Stir occasionally to prevent burning. Remove from fire, to add soda. Continue cooking, stirring con stantly until temperature is 27o degrees r. or when tried in cold water 1t will be very brittle. ke- move from fire. add lemon juice and pour into oiled pan. When cool enough to handle. gather into ball and pull until rather firm and a light yellow. Stretch into long rope and cut.
 Divinity Balls
 GA Soft Fruit Divinity
 1H cups sugar
 Ia cup karo
 A cup water
 1a teasp. salt
 i egg white
 h teasp. vanilla
 F pkg. pasteuriZed dates
 F cup nutmeats
 l.. cup toasted cOcoanut
 Cook sugar. white karo. water and salt, to hard ball stage. (26O degrees F.) Leave sauce pan over burner after the heat has been turned off. Beat egg white quickly with ebater. Pour the hot syrup slowly over the beaten egg white. boating constantly until candy will hold shape. Add vanilla. sliced dates and chopped nuts and mix thoroughly. Turn ou ton marhle siab or molding board. shape into long cylinders and roll an ,hopped toasted cocoanut. H lbs.
 COcoanut TOffee
 cup sugar
 % cup white karo
 z cup thin cream
 1-16 teasp. salt
 IF tbsp. butter
 + teasp. vanilla
 pkgs. chopped toasted co
 coanut Cook sugar. karo, cream ano salt stirring until the sugar Is dis solved. Continue cooking until the temnerature PA degrees F. IS reached. Add the butter and con. tinue cooking to 26o degrees r. It ,,i,I he necessary to stir this candy . quite often as it scorches easily Sprinkle a thick layer of chopped; toasted cocoanut on an inverted nan or baking sheet. Pour the can dy O nthe cocoanut. Sprinkle the ton with cocoanut. When coid' break into pieces. l lb.