Name: Coloring Sugar
Ingredients: best granulated sugar; non-poisonous color

Coloring Sugar

Ingredients

best granulated sugar
non-poisonous color

Directions

Sift the granulated sugar to ensure uniformity of size.
Mix the non-poisonous color with the sugar using your hands until thoroughly combined.
Place the mixture in a warm, dry area to dry out.
Once dry, rub the sugar again with your hands.
Store the colored sugar in a dry glass bottle with a stopper to protect it from moisture.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.