828. How to give color to Sugar

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
Source
The Modern Housewife
Yield
0.5 pound
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (7)
base sugar
green coloring
red coloring
other colors
Instructions (6)
  1. Prepare about half a pound of sugar as in the last recipe.
  2. Put the prepared sugar upon a baking-sheet.
  3. Stir in a spoonful of the essence of spinach until every gram is stained.
  4. Put the sugar in a warmish place to dry, but not too hot.
  5. To color the sugar red, use a little prepared cochineal or liquid carmine instead of the spinach, and proceed exactly the same.
  6. Sugar may be made of other colors by the use of indigo, rouge, saffron, &c.
Original Text · last edited 12 days ago
828. How to give color to Sugar.—Prepare about half a pound of the sugar as in the last, which put upon a baking-sheet; have a spoonful of the essence of spinach, which stir in with the sugar until every gram is stained, then put them in a warmish place to dry, but not too hot: to color them red, use a little prepared cochineal or liquid carmine, instead of the spinach, and proceed exactly the same: sugar may be made of other colors by the use of indigo, rouge, saffron, &c.; but not being partial to such a variety of coloring, I have merely given the red and the green, which, with the white, I consider to be sufficient for any of the purposes for which they are used.
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