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Rock Sugar, Coloured

Take a pint of clarified sugar and boil it in a copper or earthenware pan over a clear fire till it reaches the degree of crackled. Remove it from the fire, and mix well into it a table-spoonful of icing, stirring briskly all the time with your skimmer. If no icing is at hand, mix some sifted loaf sugar with the white of an egg till it is quite thick, put in a table-spoonful, and that will answer as well. If the rock is wanted coloured, mix with the icing any of the colouring used for confectionery before you put it to the sugar. When the sugar and icing are well mixed, put the mixture into a papered sieve to cool, and when quite cold break into pieces.