Cook your batch the same as for Lemon Stick, about twelve pounds, pour it out on the slab, fill an ordinary glass half full of tartaric acid, add a little water, and work it into a paste; scatter this over the batch, also a few drops of lemon oil. Now throw the batch together, and with the batch knife work the acid through the batch; when cold enough run through the drop machine, any design desired; remember the acid and flavor must be worked in while the batch is still hot. The old way of using the acid, dry, does not make as nice drop as the paste.
MINT DROPS.
Take twelve pounds of sugar, treat it in the same manner as you would for Mint Stick. Color about two pounds red, for the stripes, pull the rest white, form it into a roll and place fine red stripes around the batch, about one inch apart; spin out as stick candy, but do not roll it, as the stripes should remain straight; run through a sour drop cutter.
Cook any number of pounds of clear scraps, as high as possible without burning; use no cream of tartar or glucose; pour on the slab and flavor with mint oil before throwing together, pull a small piece of the batch as white as possible, and form it into stripes about one inch apart, around the batch, and run through a drop machine.
MALT DROPS.
Twelve pounds of Sugar, small spoon of cream tartar or two pounds of glucose, and cook until sugar begins to turn, or about 330° by the thermometer, if using cream of tartar; if glucose, the sugar will turn sooner. Now add about one pint extract of Malt, slowly; this should be warm before adding, stir until batch is ready to pour on the slab, which will require a few moments, as the Malt reduces the batch; be very careful and not let it scorch or burn, as that will destroy the fine flavor of the Malt; run through a drop machine, any design wished.
LIME JUICE DROPS.
Twelve pounds of Sugar, small spoon of cream of tartar, or three pounds of glucose; cook until sugar is just on the point of turning yellow, keeping the sides of the basin well washed down; pour out at once on oiled or greased slab, add to batch about one-half as much tartaric acid as for Lemon Drops; form the acid into a paste by adding to it a few drops of Lime Juice, work it into the batch, in the same way as for lemon, together with half a teaspoon green color, and a few drops of Oil of Lime; then run through a drop machine, forming a thin round, or square drop.
WILD CHERRY DROPS.