Mimosa crystals
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Flowers |
| 1 | ounce | Gum arabic |
| 1 | cup | Water |
| 1 | tablespoon | Corn syrup |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
Directions
Dry the flowers. Dissolve gum arabic in ½ cup hot water and cool.
Carefully coat the petals with this mixture. Put them on wax paper so they will not touch and mix the corn syrup and sugar in ½ cup water and cook to a soft ball. Dip petals into syrup and dry.
Sprinkle with finely granulated sugar.
* Source: Flower Cookery (The Art of Cooking with Flowers) * by Mary MacNicol * Fleet Press Corporation - New York * Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. 67-24072 * Typed for you by Karen Mintzias