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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1929
Page
7
A collection of home candy making instructions with multiple recipes including dried fruits nuts and syrups. It lists ingredients, steps and the women who contributed each recipe such as Mrs. Arno J. Gurney Mrs. Mary Metz Mrs. H. F. Beach and Mrs. John Ducker.
Two cups brown sugar one cup sour milk one tablespoon butter one cup nut meats and vanilla. Cook sugar milk and butter until it forms a soft ball in cold water. Add vanilla and nut meats and beat until creamy. Pour into a buttered dish and cut into squares.
A historical recipe outlines making marshmallows with two cups sugar eight tablespoons boiling water two tablespoons Knoxs gelatin six tablespoons cold water white of one egg soaked gelatin in cold water heat sugar with boiling water to boil add gelatin to syrup beat into egg white and heat until stiff then pour into a pan dusted with powdered sugar credited to Mrs J H Woodruff.
A nineteenth century home remedy describes bruising 1 quart raspberries in an earthen jar, adding 1 pint vinegar, sealing, steeping 2 to 8 days, straining without pressure, then adding 1 pound sugar per pint of juice. Boil 10 minutes, skim, bottle, and use 2 tablespoons in water as a summer drink. Indicates indefinite keeping. Mrs. Charles J. H. Grant.
Slice three large seedless oranges and one large lemon very thin. Layer with 11 glasses water and refrigerate 24 hours. Boil slowly one hour then add four pounds sugar and rest 24 hours. Boil one hour and 25 minutes. Yields ten glasses. Mrs Jessie Barr.
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