Spun Sugar

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. sugar
• 2 cups boiling water
• ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar

Steps

1. Put ingredients in a smooth saucepan. Boil without stirring until syrup begins to discolor, which is 300° F. Wash off sugar which adheres to sides of saucepan, as in making fondant. Remove saucepan from fire, and place in a larger pan of cold water to instantly stop boiling. Remove from cold water, and place in saucepan of hot water. Place two broomstick-handles over backs of chairs, and spread paper on the floor under them. When syrup is slightly cooled, put dipper in syrup, remove from syrup, and shake quickly back and forth over broom-handles. Carefully take off spun sugar as soon as formed, and shape in nests, or pile lightly on a cold dish. Syrup may be colored if desired. Spun Sugar is served around bricks or moulds of frozen creams and ices.
2. Dippers for spinning sugar are made of coarse wires; about twenty wires, ten inches long, are put in a bundle, and fastened with wire coiled round and round to form a handle.
3. [Illustration:
4. CREAM MINTS.—Page 546. ]
5. [Illustration:
6. CANDIED ORANGE PEEL.—Page 547. ]
7. [Illustration:
8. BREAD AND BUTTER FOLDS.—Page 549. ]
9. [Illustration:
10. NOISETTE SANDWICHES.—Page 552. ]

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.