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Rose Almond Comfits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Rose Almond Comfits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clarify the sugar by adding distilled flower water.

  2. On the third day, add a little liquid carmine to the syrup for color.

  3. For the first charge on the third day, include a little liquid gum.

  4. Reduce the syrup quantity with each charge until the last charge is very small.

  5. Heat the Comfits to the temperature of the sun on a moderately warm day.

  6. Do not add carmine to the syrup on the fourth day.

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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