Sugar Grains, Colored

Original Recipe

Stir a little coloring--as the essence of spinach, or prepared cochineal, or liquid carmine, or indigo, rouge, saffron, etc.,--into the sugar grains made as above, until each grain is stained, then spread them on a baking-sheet and dry them in a warm place. They are used in ornamenting cake.

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Stir a little coloring--as the essence of spinach, or prepared cochineal, or liquid carmine, or indigo, rouge, saffron, etc.,--into the sugar grains made as above, until each grain is stained, then spread them on a baking-sheet and dry them in a warm place.

  2. 2

    They are used in ornamenting cake.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)