Sugar Kisses

Make the same as above, omitting the chocolate and flavoring with lemon.

Chocolate Cream Drops

½ cupful cream or cream and milk, half and half; 2 cupfuls white granulated sugar. Boil together five minutes. Set the dish into another of cold water and stir until hard enough to make into balls or any fancy mold preferred, first flavoring the cream with 30 drops of vanilla. With a fork roll each one of these separately prepared in chocolate. Put them on a sheet of brown paper to cool. This amount will make fifty drops the size of a large marble.

Cream Almonds

Prepare a cream according to the rule given for Chocolate Cream Drops, and form it by hand around the almond kernels, covering thickly., A crystallized appearance may be given by rolling them while moist in fine granulated sugar.

Cream Walnuts

Take unbroken halves of English walnuts. Make a cream as for Chocolate Cream Drops, but do not stir it as stiff as for almond creams. Spread a portion of this cream with a knife on the inner surface of a half meat and press another half meat upon it. Use enough cream to embed the meats firmly with-out covering them. The cream may be slightly flavored with vanilla. Let harden.

Cocoanat Cream Candy

2 teacupfuls white sugar, ½ tea-cupful sweet cream or milk, milk and water half and half or water alone, 1 scant teaspoonful butter. Let boil fifteen minutes and then stir in 1 cupful of grated fresh cocoanut or desiccated. Pour in pans and cut lengthwise when partly cool, or drop by spoonfuls on butter paper. Some omit the butter.

Tutti Frutti Cream Candy

3 cupfuls white sugar, ½ cupful water, 1 tablespoonful vinegar. Boil ten minutes, then add 1 cupful grated fresh cocoanut or the desiccated. Boil ten minutes longer, remove from fire and stir in 1 pound of fresh chopped figs or nut meats, half and half with the figs. Drop by spoonfuls on buttered paper or in fancy molds, or pour in shallow pans and out in squares while cooling. Raisins may be mixed with the figs.

Date Candy

Take 4 cupfuls white sugar, 1 scant cupful cold water, butter size of an egg. Let boil slowly until ready to candy, not too hard. Gut dates, and remove the seeds. Close them again, lay on a well-buttered platter in rows 1 inch apart each way, pour the boiled candy over, and while cooling cut in squares so that a date will be in each square.

Fruit Or Nut Candies

Dates, figs, raisins or cherries dried in sugar and taken in small lumps may be prepared according to the rule given above for Date Candy. Nut-meats of various kinds may be also used in the same manner, substituting any of these for the dates given above. A variation in the candy may be made by substituting vinegar or lemon juice for the water used in the before-mentioned recipe.

Tutti Frutti Fruit Candy

Use the recipe for Date Candy. Stir into the liquid a cupful of fresh grated cocoanut and pour over the fruit. Dates, figs, raisins or cherries dried in sugar may be used. When nearly cool cut in squares and place on paper to grow cold.