Crystalized Jubes and Gum Dates
Ingredients
Directions
Mix gum and sugar in equal proportions.
Add flavoring to taste.
Dissolve the gum in the appropriate amount of water to create a mucilage.
Use the mucilage instead of the gum and water mixture.
Allow the mixture to dry for 8 to 10 days on trays.
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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