FONDANT

4 cups of granulated sugar,
1 ½ cups of cold water,
¼ a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, or 3 drops of acetic acid.

Stir the sugar and water in a saucepan, set on the back part of the range, until the
sugar is melted, then draw the saucepan to a hotter part of the range, and stir until
the boiling point is reached; add the cream of tartar or acid and, with the hand or a
cloth wet repeatedly in cold water, wash down the sides of the saucepan, to remove
any grains of sugar that have been thrown there.

Cover the saucepan and let boil rapidly three or four minutes.

Remove the cover, set in the thermometer—if one is to be used—and let cook very
rapidly to 240° F., or the soft ball degree.

Wet the hand in cold water and with it dampen a marble slab or a large platter, then without
jarring the syrup turn it onto the marble or platter. Do not scrape out the saucepan
or allow the last of the syrup to drip from it, as sugary portions will spoil the
fondant by making it grainy.

When the syrup is cold, with a metal scraper or a wooden spatula, turn the edges of the
mass towards the center, and continue turning the edges in until the mass begins to
thicken and grow white, then work it up into a ball, scraping all the sugar from the marble
onto the mass; knead slightly, then cover closely with a heavy piece of cotton cloth
wrung out of cold water.

Let the sugar stand for an hour or longer to ripen, then remove the damp cloth and cut the
mass into pieces; press these closely into a kitchen bowl, cover with a cloth wrung
out of water (this cloth must not touch the fondant) and then with heavy paper.

The fondant may be used the next day, but is in better condition after several days, and
may be kept almost indefinitely, if the cloth covering it be wrung out of cold water
and replaced once in five or six days.

Fondant may be used, white or delicately colored with vegetable color-pastes or with
chocolate, as frosting for small cakes, or éclairs or for making candy "centers," to be
coated with chocolate or with some of the same fondant tinted and flavored appropriately.

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