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To Colour Nonpareils

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To Colour Nonpareils

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare your colors in separate pots.

  2. Take syrup boiled to a thread.

  3. Divide the nonpareils, using double the amount of white nonpareils.

  4. Warm one portion of nonpareils in a pan.

  5. Pour your color onto the warm nonpareils and stir until well mixed.

  6. Place them in the oven to dry, ensuring not to overheat to prevent fading.

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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