Name: Peppermint and Wintergreen Wafers
Ingredients: white fondant; pink fondant (optional for wintergreen); 2-3 drops peppermint oil; 2-3 drops wintergreen oil (optional)

Peppermint and Wintergreen Wafers

Ingredients

white fondant
pink fondant (optional for wintergreen)
2-3 drops peppermint oil
2-3 drops wintergreen oil (optional)

Directions

Prepare the flavour

Melt the white or pink fondant.
Flavor with 2-3 drops of peppermint or wintergreen oil.

Shape and set

Drop small rounds onto paper to form wafers.
Allow to cool and harden.

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

White fondant: Sugar paste that sets firm as it cools, giving the wafers their body and sweetness.
Peppermint oil: Concentrated flavouring that gives the wafers a strong minty aroma.
Wintergreen oil: Optional flavouring that adds a sharp wintergreen aroma as an alternative to peppermint.

“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.