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Fruit and Gelatine Candies
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Gumdrops II
  • ½ pound powdered gum arabic
  • 1 cup hot water
  • 2¼ cups sugar
  • 1 cup cold water
  • Color
  • Flavor

Put gum arabic and hot water in double boiler, keep over hot water until dissolved, then strain. Put sugar and cold water in saucepan, stir until sugar is dissolved, wash down sides of saucepan with a butter brush dipped in cold water, and boil to 270° F., or until mixture cracks when tried in cold water. Set saucepan at once over hot water, add dissolved gum arabic, and leave thirty minutes. Color and flavor as desired, skim, run into starch molds, cover with starch, and leave two days. Brush off starch and crystallize, or hold a moment in steam from a tea kettle, and roll in coarse granulated sugar. The inside of these gumdrops should be a thick syrup.

Suggestions for Color and Flavor for Gumdrops
  • Leave uncolored, use lemon extract or lemon juice.
  • Leave uncolored, use peppermint flavor.
  • Leave uncolored, use licorice extract.
  • Color orange, use orange extract.
  • Color yellow, use oil of sassafras.
  • Color green, use oil of lime.
  • Color red, use oil of clove.
  • Color pink, use raspberry extract.
  • Color pink, use rose flavor.
  • Color pink, use wintergreen flavor.
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