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Peppermint Drops

From How we cook in Tennessee .., 1906

Serves 10

Other flavors like wintergreen or lemon can be made the same way.

Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 161. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Peppermint Drops. — One cup of sugar, just moistened with boiling water; boil five minutes; take from the fire and add cream of tartar size of a pea ; mix well and add half teaspoon- ful of essence of peppermi

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