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Barley-Sugar Drops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Barley-Sugar Drops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a funnel with sugar and hold it in your left hand.

  2. Use a small stick in your right hand to stop the funnel, releasing one drop at a time.

  3. Practice until you can drop them quickly and evenly.

  4. Use a knife blade to detach the drops from the marble surface.

  5. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the drops and wrap them in paper.

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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