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French Cream Can

From Cather Historic Cookbook - Twentieth Century Cook Book A Feast Of Good Things A Careful Compilation Of Tried And Approve.

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A historical recipe

Cather Historic Cookbook - Twentieth Century Cook Book A Feast Of Good Things A Careful Compilation Of Tried And Approve, by Auburn University Libraries.

France

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Two cups sugar
  2. 1 cup water
  3. a glass of cold water

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.
  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.

Method

  1. Two cups sugar, 1 cup water, pinch cream tartar.
  2. « Allow the mixture to boil without stirring until a drop falling from a fork will ‘‘spin a hair,” or a small quantity dropped into a glass of cold water, ` will form a soft ball easily worked with the fingers.
  3. Then remove to a cool place, carefully without shaking and a sauce pan beat the syrup to a cream.
  4. Now take up as — e much of the cream as can be handled and work until smooth.
  5. You are now ready to form candies.
  6. Flavor.
  7. Color or leave white and hold into any shape.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Kitchen thermometer
Source https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Credit

From Cather Historic Cookbook - Twentieth Century Cook Book A Feast Of Good Things A Careful Compilation Of Tried And Approve, printed page 135, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/twentieth-century-cook-book-a-feast-of-good-things-a-careful-compilation-of-trie

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.