Things Mother Used to Make | Page 6

Flour Butter the size of a
Walnut
Stir the sugar, flour and grated chocolate into the molasses and milk.
When hot add the butter. Boil until it strings. Pour into buttered tin.
When nearly cold mark into squares.

=Molasses Candy=
2 Cupfuls of Molasses 2 Teaspoonfuls of Vinegar Butter the size of a
Walnut 1/4 Teaspoonful of Soda
Put the molasses, vinegar and butter into a saucepan. Boil until it
strings when dropped from a spoon, or until it is brittle when dropped
into cold water. Stir the soda in briskly and pour into a buttered tin.
When nearly cold, pull until nearly white. Cut into small pieces or
sticks and lay on buttered platter.

=Butter Scotch=
1/2 Cupful of Molasses 1/2 Cupful of Sugar 1/2 Cupful of Butter
Boil until it strings. Pour into buttered tin and when cold break into
pieces. This is very nice when cooled on snow.

=Pop Corn Balls (very old recipe)=
1 Cupful of Molasses Piece of Butter, half the size of an Egg

Boil together until it strings and then stir in a pinch of soda. Put this
over a quart dish full of popped corn. When cool enough to handle
squeeze into balls the size of an orange.
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=DESSERTS=
=Apple Tarts=
Roll rich pie crust thin as for pies. Cut into rounds, pinch up the edge
half an inch high and place in muffin rings. Put into each one a
tablespoonful of apple sauce and bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes.
Beat the white of an egg to a stiff froth and add two tablespoonfuls of
sugar. Drop a spoonful on the top of each and brown quickly in a hot
oven.

=Baked Apples, No. 1=
Take good, sour apples; greenings are best. Scoop out the cores, wash
and place in a baking-pan. Fill the hole with sugar, and a tablespoonful
for each apple besides. Pour over these a generous supply of cold water.
Bake in a hot oven, until light and fluffy. These make a delicious
dessert, if served with cream.

=Baked Apples, No. 2=
Wash, core and quarter sour apples. Put them into an earthen crock.
Cover with cold water adding a cup and a half of sugar to six apples, or
sweeten to taste. Bake three or four hours, until they are a dark amber
color.

=Baked Sweet Apples=
Wash clean, fair, sweet apples. Put these into a baking-pan, with a little
cold water and a half-cup of molasses, if four to six apples are used.
Bake slowly until you can stick a fork through them. Years ago, people
ate these, with crackers and milk. Baked apples and milk was a favorite
dish.

=Baked Apple Dumplings=
Take rich pie crust, roll thin as for pie and cut into rounds as large as a

tea plate. Pare and slice fine, one small apple for each dumpling. Lay
the apple on the crust, sprinkle on a tiny bit of sugar and nutmeg, turn
edges of crust over the apple and press together. Bake in a hot oven for
twenty minutes. Serve hot with cold sauce.

=Fried Apples=
Pare and slice apples and fry in hot fat. When removed from the fire,
sprinkle over them a little sugar. Bananas are nice cooked in the same
way.

=Bramberries=
Crust 1 l/2 Cupfuls of Flour 1/2 Cupful of Lard (scant) 1 Teaspoonful
of Salt Just enough Water to wet smooth
Filling 1 Cupful of Raisins 1 Cracker 1 Lemon 2/3 Cupful of Sugar 1
Egg A Little Salt
Beat the egg, add sugar, salt, lemon juice and grated rind. Roll cracker
fine, chop raisins and mix all together. Roll the crust thin, cut into
rounds. Put a spoonful of filling between two rounds and pinch the
edges together. Prick top crust with fork. Bake in iron pan for twenty
minutes.

=Cream Puffs=
1 Cupful of Hot Water 1/2 Cupful of Butter 1 Cupful of Flour 1 Pinch
of Salt and Baking Soda 3 Eggs
Put the water and butter, into a dish on the stove.
When boiling, stir in the dry flour, into which you have put the salt and
soda. Stir until smooth and thick. When nearly cool, add three eggs,
one at a time. Drop on a buttered pan and bake twenty minutes in a hot
oven. This will make twelve cakes. When they are cold, make a slit in
the side with a sharp knife, and fill with whipped cream or the
following mixture:
One pint of milk, one egg, two-thirds of a cupful of sugar, one large
spoonful of flour. Beat the egg, sugar, flour, and a little salt together till

smooth and stir into the boiling milk. Flavor with lemon.

=Floating Island=
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