The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

buttered pans ¼-⅓ in. thick and cut in squares. =Lemon Taffy--to pull= 2 cups sugar 1 cup water 2 tablespns. lemon juice 2 or 3 drops lemon extract Boil sugar and water until nearly done; add lemon juice and cook until a little will harden in cold water; flavor and turn on to buttered plate. Fold the edges toward the center as they cool and pull as soon as cool enough to handle. =Penosia= 3 cups light brown sugar 1 cup milk or cream 1 tablespn. butter 1 lb. English walnuts (1½ cup chopped) 1 teaspn. vanilla Shell, blanch and chop the walnuts; boil sugar and milk until syrup will harden when dropped into water but will not become brittle; just before it is done, add the butter and vanilla; then the chopped nuts, stirring them in well; pour into buttered pans and with sharp knife mark off the squares. Cool. Another recipe says dark brown sugar and ½ cup only of cream. =Lozenges--Wintergreen or Peppermint= 2 cups granulated sugar ½ cup water 4-6 drops true oil of wintergreen, or 3 drops oil of peppermint Boil sugar and water rapidly for 5 m. after they begin to boil, add the flavoring and remove from the fire. Stir briskly until the mixture begins to thicken and to have a whitish appearance, then drop on to a cold tin dish, oiled paper or a marble slab as fast as possible, in as large or small lozenges as desired. If the mixture hardens too rapidly, set the dish in a pan of hot water. Do not place the lozenges so close that they will run together. The wintergreen drops may be tinted pink with fruit color. =Maple Candy Cream= 3 cups grated maple sugar 1 cup cream 1 teaspn. butter Boil all together for 12 m., pour into another dish, stir until mixture thickens, pour into buttered tins and cut in squares. =Hoarhound Candy= 3 cups water, 2 oz. dried hoarhound, 3 lbs. (2¼ qts.) brown sugar. Steep the dried herb in the water for a half hour; strain, add the sugar and