Total Steps
1
Ingredients
3
Tools Needed
1
Ingredients
- Sugar, coarsely sifted
- Rose water
- 3 dash Prepared cochineal (food coloring)
Instructions
Step 1
<a href="/technique/7S3QCKWK/mix">Mix</a> some sugar to a stiff paste with rose water; add a few drops of prepared cochineal to give it a pink tinge. Put part of the paste in a pastille sugar boiler, and <a href="/technique/DRM2WPZ4/stir">stir</a> it over the fire until it <a href="/technique/W7VKDJHH/boil">boils</a>, then hold the sugar boiler in the left hand, inclining it over a <a href="/technique/RNT367Z2/baking">baking</a> sheet, and, with a wire held in the right hand, <a href="/technique/XZBDDD5G/cut">cut</a> off the drops as then fall from the spout, they wil then fall in even-sized drops on to the <a href="/technique/RNT367Z2/baking">baking</a> sheet. Put the drops to <a href="/technique/RF7SRX43/dry">dry</a> in the hot-closet for twenty minutes, and put them on a sieve to <a href="/technique/GZFHJC5K/cool">cool</a>.