Fig Paste
3 pints of water. 1 1/2 pounds of sugar. 3 ounces of corn starch. Juice of half a lemon. 6 ounce of glucose.
Boil sugar and water together and thicken with the starch same as in making a thickened pudding sauce, then put in the glucose and lemon juice and cook at the side of the range about 15 minutes. Color a portion of it pink. When nearly cold mould it into any form and roll in powdered sugar. The above compound is the cheap gum drop of the street vendors.