GUM-PASTE for DESERT BASKETS or COVERS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (7)
  1. Steep one ounce of gum dragon in a tea-cupful of cold water all night.
  2. The next morning, have ready a pound of treble-refined sugar, beaten and sifted through a silk sieve.
  3. Rub your gum through together with a strong hand; it will become as white as snow.
  4. Then take a little fine hair powder and make it into a very fluff paste.
  5. Cut it into baskets, or crocans, swans, or any kind of mould or figure you please.
  6. Dry it in a very cool stove or oven, or before the fire.
  7. It will be quite white and hard, and fit for use, either to cover sweetmeats, or to set off a dessert.
Original Text
To make GUM-PASTE for DESERT BASKETS or COVERS. TAKE one ounce of gum dragon, ſteep it in a tea-cupful of cold water all night, the next morning have ready a pound of treble-refined ſugar, beat and fift it through a ſilk ſieve, rub your gum through together with a ſtrong hand, and in working it will become as white as ſnow; then take a little fine hair powder, and make it into a very fluff paſte, and cut it into baſkets, or crocans, ſwans, or any kind of mould or figure you pleaſe; dry it in a very cool ſtove or oven, or before the fire, and it will be quite white and hard, and fit for uſe, either to cover ſweetmeats, or to ſet off a deſert.
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