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To Crystalize Boiled Sugar Drops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Crystalize Boiled Sugar Drops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break up the boiled sugar drops while warm.

  2. Sift the drops in a coarse sieve over a pan while boiling to dampen them with steam.

  3. Mix the damp drops with crystal sugar until well combined.

  4. Let the mixture stand until cold, then sift again.

  5. Alternatively, rub a thin solution of gum among the drops before sifting.

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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