APRICOT CENTER.
Take ten-pound can of apricots and run them through a colander or fine sieve, then put all in a kettle and add 10 pounds sugar; cook over a slow fire and stir until quite thick, so that when you raise the paddle it won’t run off, but drop off in chunks; then set kettle off on barrel and add 3 ounces of dissolved gelatin and run the batch in starch in round, flat molds; let remain over night; use this for dipping or crystalizing then.
When dipped in fondant and then cut in two, they make a showy piece of goods.
GUM DROPS.
This recipe is intended only for retail confectioners, as large manufacturers of candies do not, or would not, attempt to use this formula in the manufacture of Gum Drops; nevertheless, it pays to make them.
Soak 4 pounds of gelatin in 3 gallons of water a half hour; now take 30 pounds sugar, 8 pounds glucose, and add only 1 pint of water, and cook to 240°; then add the gelatin batch and flavor vanilla or strawberry; stir only one minute, and then set the kettle off on barrel; let it stand a few minutes, then skim off the top and run in starch or any style of molds you wish.