54. CANDIED HOREHOUND.

Boil it in water until the juice is extracted: then boil a sufficient

quantity of sugar to a great height, and add the juice to it. Stir it

with a spoon against the sides of the sugar pan, till it begins to

grow thick, then pour it out into a paper case that is dusted with

fine sugar, and cut it into squares; dry the horehound, and put it

into the sugar finely powdered and sifted.