The confectioner : containing the method of making all sorts of preserves, lozenges, ornamental cakes, ices, liqueurs, and gum-paste ornaments. Sugar-boiling, and comfit making / by George Read.

  • Read, George.
Date:
[1860?]
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Credit: The confectioner : containing the method of making all sorts of preserves, lozenges, ornamental cakes, ices, liqueurs, and gum-paste ornaments. Sugar-boiling, and comfit making / by George Read. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. Much as there has been written in Cookery Books on the art of Confectionary, there are few, very few, wrorks on the subject now extant which are practically written, and these are difficult to be obtained, even at high prices; and, having been published some years since, they do not contain any of the modern improvements, or articles which have been introduced within these few years. The object of the present Treatise is to supply this deficiency, and to convey instruction in as plain and concise a manner as possible to the inexperienced, or those young men who have served their apprenticeships at provincial towns, and are not acquainted with the metropolitan practice and its improvements ; and also to ap- prentices, that they may be enabled to learn their business more efficiently than many masters can or will instruct them in it. The style and character of the present work will be found quite different from anything which has preceded it. In the part relating to Sugar- boiling I have endeavoured to show the causes of the effects which take place at the different stages, with the uses to which each of the processes is