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Barley Sugar.— Sucre D'orge

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Vanilla
  2. one quart of water
  3. four pounds of sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Steep barley in water.
  2. Boil sugar in the water, in the proportion of four pounds of sugar to one quart of water.
  3. Continue to boil until the sugar has attained tlie eighth degree (see sugar, p.
  4. 258).
  5. Spread it on a }>oard or marble which has been nibbed with oil.
  6. Eoll it into sticks.
  7. Vanilla or orange flower water may be put into the sugar before it is taken off the fire.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan