CONFECTIONERY.

Melt in a stew pan three ounces of butter and one pound of moist sugar; stir well over a slow fire; boil one quarter of an hour; pour out on a buttered dish and mark in squares.

Lillie.One half pound of sugar; one quarter pound of butter; one quart of molasses; boil until it will crack in cold water. When cool it can be pulled until white.

Miss M. A. Cummin.One pound of loaf sugar; one cupful of water; one half teaspoonful of cream tartar; two of vanilla; two of vinegar; butter size of an egg. Boil until it hardens when dropped into water. When nearly cold, pull as you would other candy.

Mrs. Ashley Brown.Take of grated chocolate, milk, molasses and sugar, one cupful each; piece of butter size of an egg; boil until it drops hard; put in a buttered pan and, before it cools, mark off in square blocks.

Mrs. Ashley Brown.One pint of sugar; half pint of water; boil till it cracks when dropped in water; flavor with lemon or peppermint; drop in small drops on buttered paper.

Two pounds of coffee sugar to one cocoanut; dissolve sugar in the milk of the nut; then let it come to a boil and add the grated meat. Boil until tender; then pour out and let cool on buttered pans; cut in squares.

Mattie.One cupful of Orleans molasses; one cupful of sugar; one half cupful of butter; boil until it snaps in water.

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