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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. Take a funnel and fill it with sugar.

  2. Hold the funnel in your left hand and use a small stick in your right hand to stop the funnel.

  3. Let out only one drop at a time.

  4. Practice until you can do this quickly and well.

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

  6. Strew powdered sugar over the drops and twist them up in papers.

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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