Marsh-mallow Drops

Ingredients

• one pound of clean white gum-arabic
• one quart of water
• one pound of confectioner's sugar
• the beaten whites of eight eggs

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the gum-arabic in water, strain, add sugar and place over the fire.

2. 2

   Stir continually until dissolved, and the mixture is of the consistency of honey; add gradually the beaten whites of eggs.

3. 3

   Stir until it loses thickness and does not adhere to the finger.

4. 4

   Flavor with vanilla or rose.

5. 5

   Pour into a tin dusted with powdered starch, and, when cool, divide into squares.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Marsh-mallow Drops. — Dissolve one pound of; clean white gum-arabic in one quart of water, strain, add one pound of confectioner's sugar and place | over the fire. Stir continually until all is dissolved, and the mixture is of the consistency of honey; add gradually the beaten whites of eight eggs

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