Name: Yellow Coloring
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 little saffron; 1 very small quantity of cold; 1 bright yellow; 1 lemon or orange in a thin muslin bag; 1 little juice through it

Original Recipe

Take a little saffron, put it into an earthen vessel with a very small quantity of cold, soft water, and let it steep till the color of the infusion is a bright yellow. Then strain it, add half alcohol to it. To color fruit yellow, boil the fruit with fresh lemon skins in water to cover them until it is tender; then take it up, spread it on dishes to cool and finish as may be directed. To color icing, put the grated peel of a lemon or orange in a thin muslin bag, squeezing a little juice through it, then mixing with the sugar.

1 little saffron
1 very small quantity of cold
1 bright yellow
1 lemon or orange in a thin muslin bag
1 little juice through it

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1

Take a little saffron, put it into an earthen vessel with a very small quantity of cold, soft water, and let it steep till the color of the infusion is a bright yellow.
2

Then strain it, add half alcohol to it.
3

To color fruit yellow, boil the fruit with fresh lemon skins in water to cover them until it is tender; then take it up, spread it on dishes to cool and finish as may be directed.
4

To color icing, put the grated peel of a lemon or orange in a thin muslin bag, squeezing a little juice through it, then mixing with the sugar.

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