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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt: ...steeped, and mingled with powder sugar, and beat the paste well in a marble mortar; take prepared cochineal for the red; gamboge for the yellow; indigo and orris for the blue; and the juice of beet leaves for the green, scaled over the fire to take away their crudity. Shape the pastes, thus ordered and rolled into thin pieces, in the form of roses, tulips, &c by means of tin moulds, or cut out with a knife point;. finish the flowers all at once, and dry them upon egg shells, or otherwise. Cut different forts of leaves, in like manner, out of the geeen paste, to which you may give various figures, intermixed among your flowers, and make the stalks with slips of lemon peel; garnish the tops of the pyramids of dried fruits with these artificial flowers, or else a separate nosegay may be made of them for the middle of your dessert: or they may be laid in order in a baiket, or kind of cut made of fine pastry work or crackling crust, neatly cut and dried for that purpose. To make. a Dejsert of Spun Sugar. Spin two large webs, and turn one upon the other to form a globe, and put in the infide of them a few sprigs of small flowers and myrtle, and spin a little more round to bind them together, and set them covered close up before the fire, then spin two more on a lesser bowl, and put in a sprig of myrtle, and a few small flowers, and bind them as before, set them by, and spin two more less than the last, and put in a few flowers, bind them and set them by, then spin twelve couples on tea-cups of three different fizes in proportion to the globes, to represent baskets, and bind them two and two as the globes with spun sugar; set the globes on a filver salver, one upon another, the largest at the bottom, and smallest at the top; when you have fixed the globes, run...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130730573
- ISBN 13 9781130730579
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages90
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