Gum Syrup
Dissolve 20 pounds best clear white gum-arabic in 4 gallons water nearly boiling hot; take 60 pounds sugar, melt and clarify it with 1 gallon water, add the gum solution, and boil for 2 minutes. fectioner requires different degrees of boiling 1372. Raspberry Syrup. This syrup in order to bring the sugar to the proper is sometimes used to give a vinous body and flavor to brandy. It is made of 2 pints filtered raspberry juice, and 44 pounds sugar. Select the fruit, either white or red. Having picked them over, mash them in a pan, which put in state for the various articles he prepares.
Well clarified and perfectly transparent syrup is boiled until a skimmer dipped into it, and a portion touched between the forefinger and thumb, on opening them, is drawn into a a warm place until fermentation has comsmall thread which crystallizes and breaks. menced. Let it stand for about 3 days. All This is called a weak candy height.
If boiled again, it will draw into a larger string, and if bladders may be blown with the mouth through the drippings from the ladle, it has acquired the second degree, and is called bloom sugar.
After still further boiling, it arrives at the state called feathered sugar. To determine this, dip the skimmer and shake it over the pan, then give it a sudden flirt or jerk, and the sugar will fly off like feathers.
The next degree is that of crackled sugar, in which state the sugar that hangs to a stick mucilaginous fruits require this, or else they would jelly when bottled. Now filter the juice through a close flannel bag, or blottingpaper, and add sugar in the proportion mentioned above; this had better be powdered. Place the syrup on the fire, and as it heats skim it carefully, but do not let it boil; or mix it in a glass vessel or earthenware jar, and place in a pan of water on the fire. (This is simply a water-bath.) When the syrup is dissolved, so that when you dip your fore-finger in it and apply it to the ball of your thumb, and then separate the thumb and finger, the fine thread of syrup reaches mix them with the infusion; keep back a from each without breaking, take it off; strain quart of the liquid; then dissolve and boil in through a cloth; bottle when cold; cover the above 80 pounds sugar by a good heat; with tissue paper dipped in brandy, and tie down with a bladder until wanted for use.