SC - Clarifying Sugar
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Sat May 2 04:44:22 PDT 1998
Greetings. Claricia wrote:
>Has anyone out there done sugar plate? I don't mean the paste kind
>of stuff. I can post the original if it would help, but I have no
>idea how to "clarify" sugar.
I will confess that I haven't myself boiled up a sugar syrup and poured
it out to try making plates. It should be similar to making "stained
glass" for candy windows. Regarding clarifying sugar, there are
"recipes" in late-period books that say to use the white of an egg.
However, my understanding is that _we_ modern folk don't need to
clarify sugar since the impurities that were in the period sugar are
not there in the modern sugar. If I recall correctly, there are more
detailed instructions for clarifying sugar in turn-of-the-century
cookbooks. If someone is wanting to try it, let me know and I will
look in a couple of the early 20th-c. cookbooks that I have.
Alys Katharine
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