Rose drops

Yield: 1 Servings Sug

Ingredients:

3 dr Prepared cochineal

Instructions:

-(food coloring? -K.M.) Mix some sugar to a stiff paste with rose water; add a few drops of prepared cochineal to give it a pink tinge. Put part of the paste in a pastille sugar boiler and stir it over the fire until it boils then hold the sugar boiler in the left hand inclining it over a baking sheet and with a wire held in the right hand cut off the drops as then fall from the spout they wil then fall in even-sized drops on to the baking sheet. Put the drops to dry in the hot-closet for twenty minutes and put them on a sieve to cool.