Name: Vases in Rock Sugar
Ingredients: sugar; buttered paper; water; gum paste; pasteboard; drying oil

Vases in Rock Sugar

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare plaster moulds by hardening them with drying oil or soaking them in cold water for 15 minutes.
Wipe the moulds with a sponge to remove moisture.
Pour sugar into the moulds as directed for rock sugar.
Let the sugar cool and harden before removing from the mould.
Decorate with gum paste and place on a pedestal made of pasteboard.

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.