he valuable element of
sugar so combined with nutritious vegetable bases that, because of the
bulk, there is no temptation to overeat. This quality of the new
confection would seem insurance against the evil effects of gluttony!
Before an undue amount of sugar is consumed, the very mass of the
vegetable base has satisfied the appetite.

Many sorts of vegetable candy have unusual keeping qualities; indeed,
some kinds will retain their flavor and moisture for as long as a year.
It is significant to note that almost all non-vegetable confections that
can be successfully stored for any length of time contain artificial
preservatives; vegetable candy, however, keeps, not because of the
addition of alcohol or even benzoate of soda, but because of the
excellence of the processes themselves.

Notwithstanding its advantages, vegetable candy is no harder to make
than is any other good candy. For success in any sort of cookery, much
hard work is necessary; slipshod methods and intuition can not produce
food that is up to standard. Of even greater force is this rule when
applied to the most delicate brand of cookery--the making of
confectionery. Miss Hall has supplemented her major discovery by several
other valuable discoveries--or "adaptations," as she modestly styles
them. Her use of crystallization, for instance, enables the amateur
confectioner to secure results which were previously out of her reach.

Aside from its virtues from the hygienic, dietetic and practical points
of view, the new confectionery has much to commend it. By utilizing the
common and cheap vegetables of the home garden, it gives to the girls
and women on the farm and in the village an opportunity that previously
was not theirs. This discovery means that they can now make the finer
sorts of candy, the fashioning of which was formerly out of the question
to women who did not have at their command the resources of the
specialty stores of the large city--and plenty of money to spend in
them. This enlargement of the culinary horizon of these countless women
is not without broad significance; the removal of their
limitations--petty and otherwise, if you will--is necessary before we
shall cease to tremble because they who belong on the farm and in the
village refuse to stay there. Once banish the discontent of the farm
woman, and there is no rural problem of consequence. And vegetable
candy-making is not without sociological importance because it is a
step--th