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The confectioner's and pastry-cook's guide, or, Confectionery made easy ...

1890

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Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
flavoured with ; as pink for Rose, yellow for Lemon or Ginger Lozenges, by mixing some of the colour you want to use in the gum-water, before you put it to the sugar. PEPPERMINT PIPE. Make the paste the same as directed for Peppermint Lozenges; spread it upon a marble slab, about a quar- ter of an inch thick, cut it into lengths, and roll them upon a smooth stone, with a flat piece of wood. Place them on sheets of paper, and dry them in a warm stove. You may streak them any colour you please. If you wish them to be of any particular colour, mix some of any of the colours (see Colourings for Confec- tionary) in the gum water, before you put it to the sugar. rose:, lemon, or any other pipe. Make a paste as directed for Peppermint Lozenges, excepting that instead of mixing oil of Peppermint with the gum water, you must mix flavourings, as directed for Rose, Lemon, Ginger, or any other Lozenges. Spread it upon a marble slab, about a quarter of an inch thick, cut it into lengths, lay them on a smooth stone, and roll them, with a flat board, till round like a pipe, lay them on clean paper, and dry them in an oven. Colour the gum-water, as directed for the lozenges. BATH OR LIQUORICE PIPE. Dissolve gum tragacanth or gum arabic in a suffici- ent quantity of water, with Spanish liquorice, and make into a paste with either of the gums and sugar, as for Peppermint Pipe. This is a medicated troch or pipe, and for the pur- pose they are intended, ought to be made the same as the Black Pectoral Lozenge of the Pharmacopoeias, from which, I suppose, the confectioner derived the Bath, or Liquorice Pipe, viz. “ Liquorice and sugar, each ten MADE EASY. 83 ounces, gum tragacanth three ounces, water a sufficient quantity. Or, liquorice and gum arabic, each one pound, warm water, a sufficient quantity. Dissolve, strain, and evaporate.” COMMON PEPPERMINT DROPS. Make a paste as directed for Peppermint Lozenges, but not so stiff, and drop it with a tin dropper on paper, as Nelson's buttons. Put them in a stove or a warm room, to dry. Colour them, by mixing in the gum water, before you put it to the sugar, some of either of the colourings hereafter given (see Colourings for Confectionary.) BEST PEPPERMINT DROPS. Make a paste in the following manner. Into a pint of spmg water squeeze the juice of a lemon; put a pound of fine loaf sugar into a drop-pan, (which is a deep copper pan with a spout and round bottom,) mix a little of the water and lemon -juice into the sugar, till it is a paste just thick enough to drop from a spoon, and so that the drops do not immediately sink into the rest, but remain on the top for a short time. Put it over a clear fire, and stir it till it just boils, then take it off the fire, and put in about eight or ten drops of the oil of peppermintBest Peppermint Drops, and a little more sugar, so as to make it just thick enough to drop out: put it over the fire to warm again, but you must not let it boil. Drop it in small drops upon tin or pewter plates; let them get cold, and then take them off, and put them on sheets of paper or in sieves; put them in an oven to dry. Colour them with any colour (see Colourings for Confectionary) when you put in the oil of pep- permint. r GINGER DROPS,