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Curious Ginger Drops or Catnip

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Cinnamon
  2. Cut
  3. Sugar
  4. Water
  5. an ounce of ginger
  6. Cloves

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 and sift half a pound of loaf !
  2. sugar, a quarter of an ounce of ginger, [ and a dram each of cloves and cinnamon ;, then put to the fine mixed powder two table-spoonfuls of boiling water, stir thcwhole well together, and boil it very gently over a slow fire till it becomes of a candy height.
  3. Pour it on a buttered tin;
  4. and, when it begins to harden, cut it in small squares.
  5. Let them stand at a distance from the fire till they get hard, and keep them in a box lined with paper.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve