Xl Colouring Sugar

Ingredients

• one side in warm water 83

Directions

1. 228. — To prepare Sugar for Colouring.

2. Take good loaf sugar, get it ground well, put it through a hair sieve ■ what remains in the hair sieve put into a fine wire sieve and sift it, and the sugar which comes through the wire . sieve will be rough sugar proper for colouring.

3. 229. — To colour Sugar.

4. Divide the sugar into as many parts as you intend to colour, put each into a sheet of paper, then prepare your colours. Take a round-bottomed pan and put it on a warm stove, pour in your lot of sugar, stir it about with a dry whisk until the sugar is warm, add the colour, stir it well with the whisk to make the sugar all of that colour, then stir it about till the sugar is nearly dry, when you may spread it about on the sheet of paper. You may proceed in this manner with all the colours. The first colour used should be yellow, and the next green, which may be coloured in the yellow pan and with the same whisk. You must then wash both, and colour red, and after that orange. When the sugar is cold, sift it to take out any coupled, then bottle it separately. It will be found to be a useful article to ornament rout biscuits, creams, &c.

5. 230. — Blue Colouring.

6. Take a fig of the best indigo, dip one side in warm water