Eliza Locke.
338 CONFECTIONERY.
NUT riACAROONS.
Chop fine, hickory nuts, pecans or walnuts; make frosting as for
cakes✪ Nut Macaroons, stir in meats, putting in enough to make it easy to handle; flour
the hands and make the mixture into balls the size of nutmegs; lay on
buttered tins, leaving room to spread, and bake in a quick oven. Delicious.
LiDA.
COUGH CANDY.
Three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of water and vinegar mixed half
and half. Stir before putting on the stove, but not after. When partly
done add butter the size of a walnut. Just before removing from the
stove, stir in one-fourth teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a few drops of
hot water. When cool enough to handle pull white. Luella T.
NUT AND POPCORN CANDY.
Take three quarts of corn freshly popped and stir it into two cupfuls
of New Orleans syrup that has boiled until it threads from the spoon.
Before adding corn however, stir in the syrup a speck of soda dissolved
in hot water, then add one cupful of finely flavored hickory-nut meats✪ Nut and Popcorn Candy and
then the corn. Stir all until the sugar, is evenly distributed over the corn.
Take from the fire and stir until it cools a little, and in this way you may
have each kernel separated and all coated with sugar. Lillie Miller.
BUTTER-SCOTCH FOR A COLD.
7 wo cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls of dark molasses, one cupful of
fresh tried lard and the juice of t¥;o lemons✪ Butter-Scotch for a Cold. Boil over a slow fire until
it hardens when dropped in cold water. Pour on tin« well buttered and
mark into little inch squares, before it cools. M. Hill.
OrFEE. TEA,
COCOA and BEVERAGES
AS THE human body is composed of two-thirds its weight in water, so
upon the liquid we drink depends, to a large degree, health and
long life. Through it, the blood receives new life and discharges the
worn-out substances. In this way it becomes a part of the human frame,
and is derived principally from the outside, in the form of drinks and food.
DRINKING WATER.
Great care, therefore, should be exercised as to the sort of water we
drink as well as to the food we eat. Water, when pure, is a colorless,
transparent liquid.
Rain water is the best example of pure water known, but when it
stands in cisterns it is liable to become contaminated by neighboring sinks
and vaults and rendered unfit to drink.
Spring water is the nearest approach to perfect water that we have.
This is particularly so when it flows through rocky or sandy soil. A "liv-
ing spring" is a boon to humanity, and how beautiful that our country is
blessed with them.
FILTERED WATER.
The functions of water are so important to the human race that
where the least suspicion occurs as to its purity, it should be either filtered
or boiled before using. Many people in cities take the double precaution.
They first filter the water, then boil it. In boiling, the insoluble lime which
the water takes up in its passage through the air and soil is precipitated to
the bottom of the kettle, thus the impurities are eliminated, and the water
becomes soft. Filters are procurable at a slight cost. They are valu^
able in taking sediment out of water, but they do not remove germs.
Boiling must do this.
BAD EFFECTS OF ICE-WATER.
Ice-water taken to excess is detrimental. It chills the mucous mem-
branes, and creates an inflammation which calls for more and more ©f the
liquid. It interferes with the formation of gastric juices. Dyspepsia is
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Eliza Locke.
338 CONFECTIONERY.
NUT riACAROONS.
Chop fine, hickory nuts, pecans or walnuts; make frosting as for
cakes, stir in meats, putting in enough to make it easy to handle; flour
the hands and make the mixture into balls the size of nutmegs; lay on
buttered tins, leaving room to spread, and bake in a quick oven. Delicious.
LiDA.
COUGH CANDY.
Three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of water and vinegar mixed half
and half. Stir before putting on the stove, but not after. When partly
done add butter the size of a walnut. Just before removing from the
stove, stir in one-fourth teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a few drops of
hot water. When cool enough to handle pull white. Luella T.
NUT AND POPCORN CANDY.
Take three quarts of corn freshly popped and stir it into two cupfuls
of New Orleans syrup that has boiled until it threads from the spoon.
Before adding corn however, stir in the syrup a speck of soda dissolved
in hot water, then add one cupful of finely flavored hickory-nut meats and
then the corn. Stir all until the sugar, is evenly distributed over the corn.
Take from the fire and stir until it cools a little, and in this way you may
have each kernel separated and all coated with sugar. Lillie Miller.
BUTTER-SCOTCH FOR A COLD.
7 wo cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls of dark molasses, one cupful of
fresh tried lard and the juice of t¥;o lemons. Boil over a slow fire until
it hardens when dropped in cold water. Pour on tin« well buttered and
mark into little inch squares, before it cools. M. Hill.
OrFEE. TEA,
COCOA and BEVERAGES
AS THE human body is composed of two-thirds its weight in water, so
upon the liquid we drink depends, to a large degree, health and
long life. Through it, the blood receives new life and discharges the
worn-out substances. In this way it becomes a part of the human frame,
and is derived principally from the outside, in the form of drinks and food.
DRINKING WATER.
Great care, therefore, should be exercised as to the sort of water we
drink as well as to the food we eat. Water, when pure, is a colorless,
transparent liquid.
Rain water is the best example of pure water known, but when it
stands in cisterns it is liable to become contaminated by neighboring sinks
and vaults and rendered unfit to drink.
Spring water is the nearest approach to perfect water that we have.
This is particularly so when it flows through rocky or sandy soil. A "liv-
ing spring" is a boon to humanity, and how beautiful that our country is
blessed with them.
FILTERED WATER.
The functions of water are so important to the human race that
where the least suspicion occurs as to its purity, it should be either filtered
or boiled before using. Many people in cities take the double precaution.
They first filter the water, then boil it. In boiling, the insoluble lime which
the water takes up in its passage through the air and soil is precipitated to
the bottom of the kettle, thus the impurities are eliminated, and the water
becomes soft. Filters are procurable at a slight cost. They are valu^
able in taking sediment out of water, but they do not remove germs.
Boiling must do this.
BAD EFFECTS OF ICE-WATER.
Ice-water taken to excess is detrimental. It chills the mucous mem-
branes, and creates an inflammation which calls for more and more ©f the
liquid. It interferes with the formation of gastric juices. Dyspepsia is