Fruit Tablets
Ingredients
Directions
Make ½ pound of fruit pulp.
Boil 2 pounds of sugar until it reaches the desired consistency.
Combine the fruit pulp with the boiled sugar and mix well.
Pour the mixture into a mold and let it cool.
Once cold, break into pieces.
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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What each ingredient does
- Fruit
- Provides the flavor and the pulp that gives the tablets their body.
- Sugar
- Boiled to a set stage, it hardens as it cools and holds the tablets together.
The step that matters
Boiling the sugar to the desired consistency. Sugar boiled too little stays soft and sticky, while boiled too long it turns brittle or caramelizes. The stage reached controls whether the tablets set firm and hold their shape when cooled.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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