7 pounds sugar,
3 pounds glucose,
Water to dissolve same.
Cook to 300° or 310°; pour on slab; now take a glass and put in a teaspoonful of tartaric acid and pour over it extract of lemon, enough to make a paste; now take this paste and spread it over the batch, and then color the batch a delicate yellow; put on the gloves and knead the batch good until color and acid are well worked in, then roll out thin with rolling-pin and cut with caramel cutter, or if wanted in drops, run batch through lemon drops rollers.
LIME DROPS, OR SQUARES.
Proceed as with lemon drops, only color green and flavor with oil of lime.
CLOVE DROPS, OR SQUARES.
Flavor with oil of cloves. Proceed as with lemon drops, or squares, only cut off 2 pounds of the batch and color it red; lay it on the slab, pull the balance of the batch white, then form it in a roll as for stick candy and use the red for stripes; pull out and cut with buttercup cutter, or run through rollers.