Burnt Sugar for Coloring
Ingredients
Directions
Place any amount of sugar in an old kettle over the fire.
Stir the sugar until it melts and turns black.
Remove from heat and add a little water to thin it down.
Let it cool and transfer to a large bottle for storage.
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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