Rose Drops

Ingredients

Sugar, coarsely sifted
3 dshs Prepared cochineal (food coloring? -K.M.)

Preparation

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Mix 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 stir it over the fire until it boils, then hold the sugar boiler in the left hand, inclining it over a baking sheet, and, with a wire held in the right hand, cut off the drops as then fall from the spout, they wil then fall in even-sized drops on to the baking sheet. Put the drops to dry in the hot-closet for twenty minutes, and put them on a sieve to cool.

Tools

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Yield:

4.0 servings

Added:

Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 10:47am

Creator:

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