This section is from the book "Three Meals A Day", by Maud C. Cooke. Also available from Amazon: Three Meals a Day.
1½ pints of water. ½ ounce alum.
Put in a kettle and boil. Add to this 4 pounds white sugar. Boil three minutes after it has dissolved. Skim. Strain while hot. Take 3 drops of oil of rose to ½ pint of alcohol, and put 1 large teaspoonful of this to the above mixture. An excellent imitation of honey, and a fine article for sale.
10 pounds brown sugar. 2 pounds old bee honey.
1 quart water.
1 teaspoonful cream-tartar.
2 teaspoonfuls gum Arabic.
Mix and boil three minutes. Add to this 1 quart of water beaten up with 1 egg, and continue boiling five or six minutes, removing any scum that may rise. Take from the fire, and when nearly cold, add 2 pounds more of bee honey, 1 teaspoonful essence peppermint, 2 teaspoonfuls extract rose. One-half the recipe is a good quantity.
Yolks of 6 eggs and whites of 2. Juice of 6 lemons, grated yellow rinds of 2. 1 cupful of butter. 1 pound of lump sugar.
Mix thoroughly and set the bowl containing the mixture in a sauce-pan of boiling water. Stir until it is of the consistency of honey.
It will keep two weeks or more in a cool place, and is a very nice filling for layer cakes, tarts, or may be served with bread and butter for tea.
 
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