Name: Brandy or Burnt Sugar Color
Ingredients: sugar (clear scraps); water (hot)

Brandy or Burnt Sugar Color

Ingredients

sugar (clear scraps)
water (hot)

Directions

Put sugar into a copper pan.
Dissolve with water and cook on moderate heat until it burns black as tar.
Add hot water a little at a time until it reaches the consistency of thin syrup.
Do not let the sugar burn to a cinder, as it will not mix with the water.

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.