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268 FAMILY RECEIPTS*
TO IMPROVE AND INCREASE SUGAR.
To 5 lbs. of coarse brown sugar add 1 lb. of
flour, and there will be obtained 6 lbs. of sugar
worth 10 per cent more in colour and quantity.
TO CANDY ORANGE PEEL.
Soak the peels in cold water, which change
frequently till they loose their bitterness; then
put them into syrup till they become soft and
transparent. Then they are to be taken out
and drained.
LEMOtf PEEL.
This is made by boiling lemon peel with su-
gar, and then exposing to the air until the sugar
crystallizes.
TO MAKE DEVICES IN SUGAR.
Steep gum tragacanth in rose-water, and
with double refined sugar make it into a paste,
and colour and mould it to fancy.
WHIPT SYLLABUB.
Rub a lump of loaf sugar on the outside of a
lemon, and put it into a pint of thick cream,
and sweeten it to taste. Squeeze in the juice
of a lemon, and add a glass of Madeira wine,
or French brandy. Mill it to a froth with a
chocolate mill, take off the froth as it rises,
and lay it in a hair sieve. Fill one half of the