This section is from the book "Hand-Book Of Practical Cookery", by Pierre Blot. Also available from Amazon: Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks.
Proceed as for meringues as far as mixing the sugar with the whites of eggs, when mix also with both a few drops of cochineal. Put the mixture in the pastry-bag, with tin tube No. 1 at the end of it Squeeze the mixture out and spread it on paper in a baking-pan, in different shapes: dentilated, convoluted, overlapping, waved, etc., according to fancy, about three inches and a half long. Bake in same oven as meringues, and serve when cold, as they are.
 
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