Fruit in Gum Paste
Ingredients
Directions
Make plaster moulds from fine fruit.
Color the gum paste to match the fruit's ground color.
Roll the paste to ¼ inch thick and apply it inside the mould.
Dust the mould with starch powder to prevent sticking.
Once nearly dry, join the two sides of the fruit with diluted paste.
When completely dry, smooth the edges with a fine file.
Polish with polishing paper and apply dry color using cotton.
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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