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Barley Sugar Drops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Barley Sugar Drops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil sugar until it reaches the desired consistency.

  2. Spread finely powdered loaf sugar on a table or tray.

  3. Use a rounded stick to make holes in the sugar.

  4. Run the boiled sugar into the holes or drop it onto an oiled marble slab, one drop at a time.

  5. Separate each drop with a small knife or wire.

  6. Remove drops from the surface with a knife and mix with powdered loaf sugar.

  7. Sift the drops from the sugar and store in glasses or tin boxes.

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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