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Confectionery (This is made by boiling)

This is made by boiling lemon-peel with sugar, and then exposing to the air until the sugar crystallizes. To Color Candied Sugar.

Red. Boil an ounce of cochineal in half a pint of water for five minutes, add an ounce of cream of tartar, an ounce of pounded alum, and boil them on a slow fire ten minutes; if it shows the color clear on white paper, it is sufficient. Add 2 ounces of sugar, and bottle it for use.

Blue. Put a little warm water on a plate, and rub an indigo-stone in it till the color has come to the tint required.

Yellow. Rub with some water a little gamboge on a plate; or infuse the heart of a yellow lily flower with milk-warm water.