To Clarify Sugar Recipe

'Mongst salts essential, _sugar_ wins the palm,

For taste, for color, and for various use.

O'er all thy works let cleanliness preside,

Child of frugality; and as the scum

Thick mantles o'er the boiling wave, do thou

The scum that mantles carefully remove.

GRAINGER.



Whereof little

More than a little is by much too much.

SHAKSPEARE.



To every three pounds of loaf sugar, allow the beaten white of an egg

and a pint and a half of water; break the sugar small, put it into a

nicely cleaned brass pan, pour the water over it; let it stand some time

before it be put upon the fire, then add the beaten white of the egg;

stir it till the sugar be entirely dissolved; when it boils up, pour in

a quarter of a pint of cold water, let it boil up a second time, take it

off the fire, let it settle for fifteen minutes, carefully take off all

the scum, let it boil again till sufficiently thick; in order to

ascertain which, drop a little from a spoon into a jar of cold water,

and if it become quite hard, it is sufficiently done, and the fruit to

be preserved must instantly be put in and boiled.

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