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THE
COMPLETE
CONFECTIONER.
IT must be observed, that the first thing necessary to be known, is to be perfectly acquainted with the different degrees or heights of clarifying or refining sugar; and agreeably to the fruit you have to preserve, in order to have them done in a higher degree of perfection, you must be attentive to make use of such degrees of sugar so refined, as is adapted to their different degrees of ripeness, as well as to their different sorts.
To Clarify Sugar.
In proportion to three pounds of fine, lump, or powder sugar, which you are to put in a skillet or boiler; break into an earthen pan the white of an egg with near a pint fresh water, and
beat
