are on the anxious brow
Oft replaces the sunshine that perished
With the words of the marriage vow.
Happy is he whose sweetheart
Is wife and sweetheart still:
Whose voice, as of old, can charm him;
Whose kiss, as of old, can thrill;
Who has plucked the rose to find ever
Its beauty and fragrance increase,
As the flush of passion is mellowed
In love's unmeasured peace;
Who sees in the step a lightness;
Who finds in the form a grace;
Who reads an unaltered brightness
In the witchery of the face,
Undimmed and unchanged.
Ah, happy Is he crowned with such a life!
Who drinks the wife pledging the sweetheart,
And toasts in the sweetheart the wife!
Valentine's Day Candy Recipes
Valentine Day Hot
Cinnamon Red Candy
3 1/2 c Sugar
1 c White Karo Syrup
1 c Boiling Water
Powdered Sugar (how ever much -it takes)
1 ts Red Food Coloring
1 ts Cinnamin Oil(not -extract)
Sprinkle a liberal layer of powdered
sugar onto 2 cookie sheets, (cover well to keep candy from sticking) Cook
sugar, Karo and water to 290 F. Add cinnamon oil and food color. Be VERY
careful of the fumes.
MIX WELL and pour evenly(and slowly) over sugared pans. Spread candy carefully.
WORK QUICKLY. Allow to cool. Sprinkle powdered sugar over top of candy. Crack
into pieces and enjoy.
Yield: 99 pieces
4 - 3-oz. chocolate bars; --2 semisweet, 1 milk, 1 white chocolate
1/2 c Crushed hard striped peppermint candies
Melt the 3 kinds of chocolate in 3
separate bowls. Stir half of the crushed candy into the semisweet chocolate.
Reserve a bit for sprinkling; stir the remainder into the milk and white
Drop teaspoons of the semisweet onto a parchment-lined tray. Top with 1 dollop
each of the milk and white chocolates. Sprinkle with crushed candy. Let
Day English Toffee
1 c Sugar
3/4 c Corn syrup; light brown
3/4 c Cream; thin
1/8 ts Salt
Cook, stir until sugar is dissolved. Cook
until firm ball in cold water or 244F. Add 1 1/2 T. butter and 1/2 t. vanilla.
Pour in thin layer on greased slab. While warm, mark in squares. Wrap in paper
1/2 c Coarsely chopped pecans
1/2 c Butter
3/4 c Brown sugar, packed
1/2 c Semisweet chocolate pieces
Sprinkle pecans in bottom of buttered 8
inch square baking pan. Combine butter and brown sugar in 2 quart heavy
saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a
boil. Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until mixture reaches hard crack
stage (295F) on candy thermometer. Immediately pour hot mixture over
pecans,spreading evenly. Sprinkle with chocolate pieces. Let stand 5 minutes.
Spread melted chocolate evenly over all. When chocolate is ~et, break up into
Valentine's Day Cookie Recipes
The Big Valentine
Yield: 4 Servings
3/4 c Margarine or butter, -softened
3/4 c Honey
1/4 ts Almond extract
2 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1/2 c Finely chopped almonds
Preheat oven to 300F. In a large bowl,
beat margarine, honey and almond extract with an electric mixer until mixture
is light and fluffy. Add flour, 1 cup at a time, beating well after each
addition. Mix in almonds.
On ungreased cookie sheets, shape 1/2-cup portions of dough into heart shapes,
no more than 1/2-inch thick. Decorate as desired by following one of the tips
below. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges turn brown. Cool 5 minutes and
remove from pan.
- create a design on top of the cookies using white or
colored candy sprinkles. Or you could crimp the edges of heart, making a design
using the tines of fork, or a knife, spatula or spoon.
- sprinkle baked cookies with powdered sugar.
- you may want to paint a design with a simple
egg-yolk paint. separate an egg; put the egg yolk in a small bowl and mix with
1/2 teaspoon water and enough red food coloring to make the desired sired shade
of red. Using a clean paint brush, paint a design on cookie using the colored
yolk. Or place a small doily on cookie and, using a clean, stiff brush, work
the egg paint through the cutouts and create a lacy effect. Remember that this
is all done before the cookies are baked.
Cookies Valentine Cookie
Yield: 48 Cookies
1 pk Hershey's Hugs chocolates (8 oz)
1 c Butter or margarine, -softened (2