Make a rich syrup of the sugar; add the apples nicely pared and cored. Stew till soft, then mix smoothly with the syrup and pour all into a mould. Stir into the cream (or if there is none at hand, new milk must answer) the eggs well beaten; also the sugar, and let it just boil up in a farina kettle; then set aside to cool. When cold take the apples from the mould and pour this cream custard around it and serve. If spice or flavor- ing is agreeable, nutmeg, vanilla or rose water can be used. 210 Dessert. 211 Disll of Fig:s — One cup sugar, % cup water, 3^ teaspoonful cream of tartar✪ Dish of Figs. Let the sugar and water boil until it is a pale brown color; shake gently the basin in which it is boiling, to prevent it burning, but do not stir it at all until just before you take it from the fire; then stir in the cream of tartar. Wash and cut open some figs; spread them on a plat- ter, then pour the sugar over them. Take care to have each fig covered; set them in a cool place till the sugar has time to harden. A Dish of Nuts — Arrange them piled high in the center of a dish; a few leaves around the edge of the dish will greatly improve the appearance. In dishing filberts serve them with the outer skin on. If walnuts, wipe with a damp cloth before serving. HOME-MADE CANDIES. MEN, women and children — not to mention dogs and horses — like sugar, and the taste is entirely defensible. These white crystals, this frost of honey, feed the ever-burning flame of the body, supplying animal heat, which is life, and rousing the nervous energies like phosphates, or better than phosphates in some cases. I have had brain-fag so entire that it seemed as if I never could write or had written a Hne, relieved by taking a syrupy small glass of eau sucree^ when shortly ideas gathered and took shape and the blank brain resumed its work. I can't help fancying that the sweets craved so ardently by children have much to do with furnishing nerve aliment to their fast-growing systems. Sugar contributes both animal heat and nervous force, and seems to be a transformation of the elements of heat, as the diamond is transformed carbon. In the terrible retreat ttom Moscow, the few of Napoleon's army who secreted a few pounds of sugar to eat were enabled to support the in- tense cold. In tropic countries Europeans learned to drink eau sucree before long walks as a preventive of sunstroke and paralysis, and the French Algerian troops carry sugar on their marches to enable them to withstand the desert heat. Persons with spinal inflammation and paralytic tendencies often have a craving for sweets, which is nature reaching instinctively for help, and indulgence in such cases is fol- lowed by improvement. 212 Home-Made Candies. 213 As much pure sugar or sweets as can be eaten without producing acidity is not only safe but beneficial for any one who craves it. Disturb- ance seldom follows in any ordinary case when the sweets are perfectly pure and are taken at proper times, not nibbled constantly between meals.

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Make a rich syrup of the sugar; add the apples nicely pared and cored. Stew till soft, then mix smoothly with the syrup and pour all into a mould. Stir into the cream (or if there is none at hand, new milk must answer) the eggs well beaten; also the sugar, and let it just boil up in a farina kettle; then set aside to cool. When cold take the apples from the mould and pour this cream custard around it and serve. If spice or flavoring is agreeable, nutmeg, vanilla or rose water can be used. Dessert. 211 Dish of Figs — One cup sugar, % cup water, 3^ teaspoonful cream of tartar. Let the sugar and water boil until it is a pale brown color; shake gently the basin in which it is boiling, to prevent it burning, but do not stir it at all until just before you take it from the fire; then stir in the cream of tartar. Wash and cut open some figs; spread them on a platter, then pour the sugar over them. Take care to have each fig covered; set them in a cool place till the sugar has time to harden. A Dish of Nuts — Arrange them piled high in the center of a dish; a few leaves around the edge of the dish will greatly improve the appearance. In dishing filberts serve them with the outer skin on. If walnuts, wipe with a damp cloth before serving. HOME-MADE CANDIES. MEN, women and children — not to mention dogs and horses — like sugar, and the taste is entirely defensible. These white crystals, this frost of honey, feed the ever-burning flame of the body, supplying animal heat, which is life, and rousing the nervous energies like phosphates, or better than phosphates in some cases. I have had brain-fag so entire that it seemed as if I never could write or had written a Hne, relieved by taking a syrupy small glass of eau sucrée when shortly ideas gathered and took shape and the blank brain resumed its work. I can't help fancying that the sweets craved so ardently by children have much to do with furnishing nerve aliment to their fast-growing systems. Sugar contributes both animal heat and nervous force, and seems to be a transformation of the elements of heat, as the diamond is transformed carbon. In the terrible retreat from Moscow, the few of Napoleon's army who secreted a few pounds of sugar to eat were enabled to support the intense cold. In tropic countries Europeans learned to drink eau sucree before long walks as a preventive of sunstroke and paralysis, and the French Algerian troops carry sugar on their marches to enable them to withstand the desert heat. Persons with spinal inflammation and paralytic tendencies often have a craving for sweets, which is nature reaching instinctively for help, and indulgence in such cases is followed by improvement. Home-Made Candies. 213 As much pure sugar or sweets as can be eaten without producing acidity is not only safe but beneficial for any one who craves it. Disturbance seldom follows in any ordinary case when the sweets are perfectly pure and are taken at proper times, not nibbled constantly between meals.

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