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Plain Peppermints

From For the comfort of the family, 1914

This mixture can be flavored with oil of wintergreen and colored with vegetable coloring.

Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from For the comfort of the family (1914) by Josephine Story, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lain pep- permints. Boil one-half pint of granulated sugar and three tablespoons of boiling water hard for three minutes. Drop six drops of oil of peppermint on four heaping tablespoons of confectioners' sugar

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