Name: Peppermint Drops
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cupful of sugar crushed fine; 5 minutes; 1 pea; 4 or five drops of oil of peppermint; 1 little water and boil a minute or two

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One cupful of sugar crushed fine, and just moistened with boiling water, then boiled five minutes; then take from the fire and add cream of tartar the size of a pea; mix well and add four or five drops of oil of peppermint. Beat briskly until the mixture whitens, then drop quickly upon white paper. Have the cream of tartar and oil of peppermint measured while the sugar is boiling. If it sugars before it is all dropped, add a little water and boil a minute or two.

1 cupful of sugar crushed fine
5 minutes
1 pea
4 or five drops of oil of peppermint
1 little water and boil a minute or two

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1

One cupful of sugar crushed fine, and just moistened with boiling water, then boiled five minutes; then take from the fire and add cream of tartar the size of a pea; mix well and add four or five drops of oil of peppermint.
2

Beat briskly until the mixture whitens, then drop quickly upon white paper.
3

Have the cream of tartar and oil of peppermint measured while the sugar is boiling.
4

If it sugars before it is all dropped, add a little water and boil a minute or two.

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