To Clarify Sugar

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      5 min

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By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

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Ingredients

For Syrup

  • sugar, 6 lbs.
  • water, 3 quarts
  • ½ white</

Method

It is an economy to use at once the very best sugar for confectionary in general, for when highly refined it needs little or no clarifying even for the most delicate purposes; and the coarser kinds lose considerable weight in the process. Break it into large lumps, and put it into a very clean preserving pan; measure for each pound a