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1895

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Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Coloiored Varieties of S^lgar. Red sxujar, coloured with cochineal. Rose-coloured s^lgar, coloured with a dilute solution of cochineal, mixed With, guice of rose-leaves. Yellow sugar, coloured with saffron. Orange sugar, coloured with a mixture of saffron and cochineal. ^ Rottenhofer, /oc. cit., No. 1,939, derives ‘Kermes-red’ from ‘berries ripe in October.’ t Gf. ‘ Pharmacopcjeiiv Britannica,’ pp. 121, 401. \ Ibid., p. 401, 102 THE SPIRIT OF COOKERY Green sugar, coloured with extract of sjyinage. Blue S2igar, coloured with juice of violet-petals. Broion sugar, coloured with chocolate. Berficmed Varieties of Sugar. Vanille sugar, perfumed hy pounding with solid vanille. Orange (zest) sugar, perfumed by pounding with zest of orange-peel. Orange-floioer sugar, perfumed by pounding with fresh orange-floxoers. Bose sugar, prepared by pounding eight drops of attar of roses with 80 grammes of sugar. Coffee - essence sugar, sugar flavoured with watery or alcoholic extract of coffee. Clarification of Sugar hy Solution and Beconcentration hy Boiling ; Stages or Degrees of Sugar-hoiling . Eor purposes of confectionery, sugar is clarified by being dissolved in a little water, heated and skimmed ; it is then gradually boiled down, and the different degrees of concen- tration through which the syrup gradually passes have received the following technical names : First degree: Fr. Sucre a la nappe; Germ. Breitlauf. Second degree : Fr. Sucre liss4 ; Germ. Kleine perle, kl. faden. Third degree : Fr. Sucre perl4 ; Germ. Grosse perle, or grosser faden. Fourth degree; Fr. Sucre souffl6; Germ. Kleiner flug, kl, blase. Fifth degree: Fr. Sucre a la plume; Germ. Grosser flug, grosse_blase. Sixth degree : Fr. Sucre au cass6 ; Germ. Der Bruch. Seventh degree: Fr. Caramel; Germ. Gebrannter zucker, caramel. sue A A’ GLACES 103 Glaizes or Glaces of Sugar ; Sugar Glaces. The glaces are produced by the application to the outside of confectionery of some of the sugars described in the previous lines. They should not be confounded with meat-glaizes, being savoury sauces or extract of meat made gelatinous with more or less gelatine. 1. Cold sugar glaces consist of white sugar powder stirred with white of egg. They may be coloured by any of the colouring matters above enumerated, and be perfumed by any of the agents described. 2. Cold sugar glaces for conserving are made with cold syrup and sugar-powder. They may be made plain, or flavoured with essences or liqueurs, or be made with odorant sugar. 3. Hot Glaces for Conserving . —Glaces of orange, straw- berries, raspberries, pineapple-juice, and others are em- ployed. A glace of chocolate is now frequently used. Spiced Pepper and Spiced Salt as Conventional CoinpoiLiids. For all stuffings and force-meats, whether required for roast, boiled, or braised poultry, for the dainty galantine or the savoury pie, there are few things more useful to have at hand than spiced pepper.* It saves great trouble, and is valuable for many dishes. The following mixture can be kept in bottle and used afZ libitum : Spiced Pepper