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Fruit Wafers

Fruit wafers are thin, sweet treats made by mixing fruit pulp with sugar and drying the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Fruit Wafers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the fruit through a fine sieve to obtain the pulp.

  2. Heat the sugar until very hot.

  3. Mix the hot sugar with the heated fruit pulp.

  4. Set the mixture on a hot surface until it is almost boiling.

Dry and shape

  1. Pour the mixture onto plates and return to heat until it dries enough to leave the plates.

  2. Remove before it candies and shape as desired.

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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What each ingredient does

Fruit pulp
Provides the fruit flavor and the body of the wafer mixture.
Sugar
Sets into a firm, brittle structure as the mixture cools and dries.

The step that matters

Removing the mixture before it candies. Sugar cooked past the right point turns from a pliable mass into a hard candy, so the wafers become brittle and hard to shape. Pulling the mixture off the heat while it is still pliable keeps it shapeable.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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