Rose Cake
From The confectioner's and pastry-cook's guide, or, Confectionery made easy ..., 1890
Clarified loaf sugar can be used instead of raw sugar.
Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The confectioner's and pastry-cook's guide, or, Confectionery made easy ... (1890) by George Read, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
two pounds of raw sugar in about a teacupful of water, over a slow fire, until you perceive it begins to candy round the sides of the pan, or has reached the degree of blown, (see Sugar Boiling;) then take it off, MADE EASY. 79 and drop eighteen drops of the oil of peppermint into it ; mix it all well together, and then pour it into small tin hoops, round, square, or any shape you like. Or, you may make it up as follows. Butter a clean sheet of writing paper well over, and lay it at the bottom of a square tin; pour the mixture into the paper, and lay it on your stove; it will become beautifully dappled all over, then take it off, and cut it to any shape you please. HOREHOUND CAKE. Make a pint of horehound tea, by pouring a pint of • boiling water upon a bunch of horehound in a basin, when 'the tea is cold, pour it in upon two pounds of crushed loaf sugar in a preserving pan; put it over a clear fire, and let it boil till of the degree of blown, (see Sugar Boiling,) take it off the fire, and mix it all well together, stirring it with a wooden spoon, till the sugar gets thick, and begins to set; then pour it out about a quarter of an inch thick, upon a slightly oiled mar- ble slab. You may make them of a heart shape, by stamping them out with a cutter, as it sets; 01 mai k the cake in small squares; so that you can break it down the marks; or may leave the cake plain, and break it in pieces when cold. Keep it in jars or canis- ters from the air. ROSE CAKE. Proceed as for Peppermint Cake; leave out the oil of peppermint, and add otto or oil of roses. Colour with prepared cochineal
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