The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ... With a variety of other useful and elegant articles / by Robert Abbot.

  • Abbot, Robert, active 1800.
Date:
[between 1790 and 1799?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ... With a variety of other useful and elegant articles / by Robert Abbot. 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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    THE COMPLETE CONFECTIONER. PART I. DIFFERENT METHODS AND DE- GREES OF BOILING SUGAR. To clarify Sugar. rpAKE a pan proportioned in fize to the quantity of fugar you intend to clarify : to thirty pounds of fugar, put two gallons of water : whifk the white of an egg in the water, and fet the pan on the fire ; when the fugar begins to boil, add half a pint of water, to pre- vent its boiling over, and alfo to raife B the