Sugar Wafers

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (11)
  1. Wet the sifted double-refined sugar with the juice of lemon pretty thin.
  2. Scald the mixture over the fire until it candies on the top.
  3. Put the mixture on paper and rub it about thin.
  4. When almost cold, pin up the paper across.
  5. Put the wafers in a stove to dry.
  6. Wet the outside of the paper to take them off.
  7. To make them red, use clear gilliflowers boiled in water.
  8. To make them yellow, use saffron in water.
  9. To make them green, use the juice of spinach.
  10. Put sugar in and scald it as though white.
  11. With a pin, mark your white ones before you pin them up.
Original Text
Sugar Wafers. Take some double-refined sugar, sifted; wet it with the juice of lemon pretty thin, and then scald it over the fire till it[339] candies on the top. Then put it on paper, and rub it about thin; when almost cold, pin up the paper across, and put the wafers in a stove to dry. Wet the outside of the paper to take them off. You may make them red with clear gilliflowers boiled in water, yellow with saffron in water, and green with the juice of spinach. Put sugar in, and scald it as though white, and, with a pin, mark your white ones before you pin them up.
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