To boil Sugar to Caramel (No. 85)

The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's ... · Kitchiner, William · 1817
Source
The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (14)
  1. Break one pound of refined sugar into a small copper or brass pan.
  2. Add a gill of spring-water.
  3. Set the pan on a fire.
  4. When it boils, skim it clean.
  5. Let it boil quick until it reaches the 'crack' degree.
  6. To test for 'crack' degree: dip a tea-spoon or skewer into the sugar, and let it drop into a pan of cold water. If it remains hard, it has attained the degree.
  7. Squeeze in the juice of half a lemon.
  8. Let it remain on the fire for one minute longer.
  9. Set the pan into another of cold water.
  10. Prepare moulds of any shape by rubbing them over with sweet oil.
  11. Dip a spoon or fork into the caramel sugar.
  12. Throw the sugar over the mould in fine threads until it is completely covered.
  13. Make a small handle of caramel, or stick on two or three small gum paste rings for ornament.
  14. Place the caramel-covered mould over small pastry of any description.
Original Text
To boil Sugar to Caramel.—(No. 85.) Break into a small copper or brass pan one pound of refined sugar; put in a gill of spring-water; set it on a fire; when it boils skim it quite clean, and let it boil quick, till it comes to the degree called crack; which may be known by dipping a tea-spoon or skewer into the sugar, and letting it drop to the bottom of a pan of cold water; and if it remains hard, it has attained that degree: squeeze in the juice of half a lemon, and let it remain one minute longer on the fire; then set the pan into another of cold water: have ready moulds of any shape; rub them over with sweet oil; dip a spoon or fork into the sugar, and throw it over the mould in fine threads, till it is quite covered: make a small handle of caramel, or stick on two or three small gum paste rings, by way of ornament, and place it over small pastry of any description.
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