Name: Red Color for Soda Syrups
Ingredients: 1 ounce No. 40 carmine; 4 ounces alcohol

Red Color for Soda Syrups

Ingredients

1 ounce No. 40 carmine
4 ounces alcohol

Directions

Combine 1 ounce of No. 40 carmine with 4 ounces of alcohol.
Let the mixture stand for a short time.
Use only a few drops of this mixture per gallon of syrup.

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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Red Color for Soda Syrups