Best Peppermint Drops

Ingredients

• a pint of spring water
• a pound of fine loaf sugar
• squeeze the juice of a lemon
• about eight or ten drops of the oil of peppermint

Method

1. 1

   Into a pint of spring water squeeze the juice of a lemon; put a pound of fine loaf sugar into a drop-pan, 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.

2. 2

   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 peppermint, and a little more sugar, so as to make it just thick enough to drop out.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The confectioner's and pastry-cook's guide, or, Confectionery made easy ... (1890) by George Read, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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 peppermint

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