Mint Drops

Ingredients

• 1 pound pulverized sugar
• 1 heaping teaspoon powdered gum-arabic
• 5 tablespoons water
• 1 tablespoon essence peppermint

Method

1. 1

   Put the water in a small saucepan with the gum and warm it up.

2. 2

   When the gum is dissolved, add about a quarter of the sugar, let it boil, then gradually add half the remaining sugar without stirring.

3. 3

   When it boils again, stir in the remaining sugar and the flavoring.

4. 4

   Drop portions the size of quarter dollars on sheets of paper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 120. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mint Drops. 1 pound pulverized sugar. 1 heaping teaspo«n powdered gum- arabic. 5 tablespoons water. 1 tablespoon essence pepperment

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