Red Colouring for Pippin Paste

The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined · Mollard, John · 1802
Source
The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined
Time
Cook: 20 min Total: 20 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (4)
To make red colouring
Instructions (3)
  1. boil them together for twenty minutes
  2. strain it through a fine sieve
  3. preserve it for use close covered
Original Text
To make red Colouring for Pippin Paste, &c. for garnishing Twelfth Cakes. Take an ounce of cochineal beat very fine; add three gills of water, a quarter of an ounce of roche-alum, and two ounces of lump sugar; boil them together for twenty minutes, strain it through a fine sieve, and preserve it for use close covered.
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