SWEETMAKING FOR CHILDREN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3693, 30 November 1912, Page 9

SWEETMAKING FOR CHILDREN.

AN AMUSEMENT FOR A WET

AFTERNOON

Sweet-making without a are is a splendid wet-day pastime for the children. There are quite a number of delicious and quite wholesome ‘‘'goodies” which require l no cooking whatever, and can ho manufactured at any small table, and 'for which the principal ingredients are very simple, while the requisite utensils consist of a few plates and a fork or two. Peppermint creams, colored cream fondants, peppermint mottoes, walnut candies, cocoa nut kisses, and cocoanut ice are among the sweetmeats which can bo made easily.

The chief ingredients required are white of egg and icing sugar, which form the basis of all the sweets. A few drops of peppermint essence will flavor the peppermint creams and half a pound of dessicatod coooanut is required if eocoanut ice is to he made. A small bottle of cochineal, another of vanilla, and half a pound of shelled walnuts, such as are used for decorating cakes will lend a splendid variety.

PAINTED MOTTOES.

A clean paint brush is needed for painting mottoes in cochineal on tho flattened peppermint creams to transform them into peppermint mottoes. To begin sweet-making operations, sift a couple of pounds of icing sugar to free it from, lumps and place in a bowl in the middle of the table. _ Provide each small sweet-maker with a soup plate containing the white of an egg mixed with a tablespoonful of water and a good strong kitchen fork with which to stir icing sugar—a heap-ed-up spoonful at a time—into the white of egg until it is so stiff that it cannot bo worked further.