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Candied Cassia

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pound of sugar
  2. Must

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Powder as much brown cassia as will lie upon two shillings, with as much musk and ambergris as is approved.
  2. Boil a quarter of a pound of sugar to candy height;
  3. mix in the powder welland pour it into saucers, which must be buttered very thin, ana When cold it will slip out easily.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife