Gum Paste for Ornamenting Cakes, &C
Ingredients
Directions
Dissolve gum dragon in water and strain it.
In a mortar, combine the strained gum with a little sifted sugar and pound for 30 minutes.
Add hair powder and pound for an additional 15 minutes.
Color the paste as desired with food coloring.
Mold the paste into desired shapes.
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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