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cream at a time and spoon out with a little of the cream, just taking out one cherry at a time.

SUNSHINE CANDY.

Place in kettle

10 lbs. sugar.
1 teaspoonful cream-of-tartar.
2 qts. water.

Place on fire and mix.

When batch starts to boil remove paddle, cover kettle and allow to steam for a few minutes. Remove cover, wash off sides of kettle and place thermometer in batch. Cook to 335° and pour on greased slab.

Color a little piece red, a little piece green and a little piece lavender.

Pull the balance of batch and flavor peppermint, anise, lime or any flavor you desire. Place on spinning table, flatten out and place strips on three separate pieces. Now bump the pieces together and pull out in thin chips about ½ or ¾ of an inch wide and cut in buttercup-cutter.

Cook another batch and pull out round and cut like buttercups.

Cook another batch and take a small piece and pull it for a stripe. Take the balance of batch and color half red and flavor cinnamon and the other half green and flavor lime. When quite cool form in round loaf and stripe with several small white stripes. Pull out round and cut as butter-cups.

There is no limit to the assortment, simply use your own judgment. Keep in tight jars.