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How to Conduct the Candying of Bonbons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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How to Conduct the Candying of Bonbons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place stout straight wires parallel across the bottom of a candying pan.

  2. Gently pour prepared sugar over the bonbons, covering them no more than ¼ inch deep.

  3. Lay neat straws half an inch apart across the pan.

  4. Cover the straws with a square piece of thin, damp rag.

  5. Place the pan in a hot closet at about 86°F to 95°F (30° to 35° C).

  6. After four hours, carefully lift out one candy to check the grain.

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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