Compiled by Mrs. Kirk D. Holland.

More cures are made, More lovers waylaid, More women weighed, Because they ate good candy. More preachers prayed, More crooks are saved, More laughs are made Because they ate good candy.

Bob Venables.

The best known cure for harsh words is a mouth full of candy.

Stuffed Dates

1 egg white, unbeaten.

2 tablespoonfuls of milk.

Powdered sugar enough to make a stiff dough.

Make fondant of the ingredients given. After kneading well work in as many broken nut meats as it will hold. Have ready one pound of pitted dates. Stuff each with a ball of fondant and roll in powdered sugar.

Robert Limpus.

Nut Loaf

3 cups granulated sugar 1/2 cup corn syrup.

1/2 cup water.

White of 2 eggs, beaten.

Boil first three ingredients together until it forms a soft ball. Stir into the egg whites until stiff enough to knead. Add nuts and make it into loaf.

Maryan McClelland.

Butter Scotch

2 cups light brown sugar 1 cup white Karo 3/4 cup water.

1/2 cup milk.

1/3 cup butter.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

1/2 teaspoon vanilla.

Put sugar, Karo and water in kettle, stir and cook until it comes to a boil, add milk slowly and continue to cook, stirring all the time, until it forms a firm ball in water. Remove from fire, add salt and butter, put back on fire and cook until it forms a hard ball in water. Pour on greased platter and when cool cut in squares.

Richard Pettis.

Penochia

3 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup Bowman's milk 1 teaspoon vanilla.

1/2 cup broken walnut meats Butter size of a walnut.

Boil sugar and milk together for five minutes, add butter and boil until it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Remove from heat and stir briskly for a minute. Add nuts and vanilla, pour into buttered pans and mark into squares when partly cooled.

Elizabeth Carter.

Maple Divinity Fudge

1 cup maple syrup.

2 cups sugar 1/2 cup water.

2 egg whites, beaten Chopped nuts.

Boil until it forms a soft ball when dropped in water. Pour the hot syrup on the beaten whites of the eggs, beat two minutes. Chopped nuts to be added if desired. When quite stiff pour into buttered pan and set aside to harden, then cut into squares.

Majorie Kipp.

Hard Nut Candy

3 cups light brown sugar.

3/4 cup Bowman's milk.

1 tablespoon butter nuts, 2 cups.

Boil first three ingredients until the liquid forms a hard ball in cold water. Add nuts and stir until it hardens. Pour into buttered pans to cool.

John Myers Tittle.

Vinegar Taffy

3 cups sugar.

1 1/2 cups vinegar.

Stir the sugar into the vinegar until thoroughly dissolved ; heat to a gentle boil and stew uncovered until it ropes from the tip of the spoon. Turn out upon broad dishes, well buttered, and cool, then as soon as it can be handled, pull. It can be pulled beautifully white and porous.

Joseph H. Campbell.