Name: Nonpareils
Ingredients: ½ pound Florence orris-root, pulverized and sifted; ½ tablespoon syrup, boiled to a pearl

Nonpareils

Ingredients

½ pound Florence orris-root, pulverized and sifted
½ tablespoon syrup, boiled to a pearl

Directions

Warm the pulverized orris-root in a pan over gentle heat.
Moisten the powder with the syrup using your hands to form small grains.
Gradually increase the charges, sifting the nonpareils to remove small particles and dust.
Repeat the sifting process often.

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.