This old-fashioned recipe is taken from “The White House Cook Book” by Hugo Ziemann, Steward of the White House, and Mrs. F. L. Gillette, a celebrated 19th-century cookbook author, published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, New York, in 1913.
Grate the rind of one orange and squeeze the juice, taking care to reject the seeds; add to this a pinch of tartaric acid; then stir in confectioner’s sugar until it is stiff enough to form into balls the size of a small marble.
This is delicious candy. The same process for lemon drops, using lemons in place of orange. Color a faint yellow.
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