Recipe - Rose Drops

Sugar; coarsely sifted
Rose water
3 dr Prepared cochineal
(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 evensized drops on to the baking sheet. Put
the drops to dry in the hotcloset for twenty minutes, and put them on a
sieve to cool.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini