Name: Saffron Lozenges
Ingredients: 4 ounces saffron, dried and powdered; 4 pounds ruga; dissolved gum, sufficient to make a paste

Saffron Lozenges

Ingredients

4 ounces saffron, dried and powdered
4 pounds ruga
dissolved gum, sufficient to make a paste

Directions

Combine the dried and powdered saffron with ruga in a bowl.
Add enough dissolved gum to form a paste.

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.

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Saffron Lozenges