| Soft maple sugar, | 1 pound |
| Top milk, | ¾ cup |
| Boiling water, | ¼ cup |
| Nut meats cut in pieces, | 2/3 cup |
Boil together until soft ball forms in water. Remove from fire, beat until creamy, add nut meats and pour into greased tin. Cool slightly, mark into squares.
Quick Nougatines
| Marshmallows, | 1 cup |
| Almond paste, | ½ cup |
| Nuts, | ¼ cup |
| Candied cherries, | ¼ cup |
Put marshmallows and almond paste in double boiler and stir until melted and well blended. Add nuts and cherries cut in small pieces and spread half an inch thick on a pan or slab sprinkled with confectioner's sugar. When firm, cut in bars 1½ inches long and ½ inch wide. If desired, dip in melted chocolate.
Substitutes for Christmas Candies
"What would Christmas be without Christmas candies!" Can't you hear that wail going up from children all over the land? And from many a grown-up, too.
A Christmas shorn of all its sweets isn't necessary at all. But with a little forethought and some substitutes in the way of fruit and nut sweetmeats, we can do much to lessen the pull on sugar at just this time.
A decrease in our annual Christmas candy consumption of, say, even one-tenth (and that isn't asking very much of the "home fighter"), when multiplied by 100,000,000 of us will provide much energy-giving food to our army boys and our needy allies.