This is a recipe found in a book entitled “Enquire Within Upon Everything”First published by Houlston and Sons1886

Ingredients

• ground white sugar, half a pound
• tartaric acid and carbonate of soda each a quarter of a pound
• essence of lemon, forty drops

The Modern Day Version

• 250 grams icing sugar
• 125 grams each tartaric acid and bi-carbonate of soda
• 40 drops lemon essence (about 1 teaspoon)

Method

1. All the powders should be well dried, add the add the essence to the sugar, then the other powders, stir all together and mix by passing twice through a hair sieve. Must be kept in tightly-corked bottles into which a damp spoon must not be inserted. The sugar must be ground or very finely pulverized in a pestle and mortar. The powdered sugar sold for icing cakes will do.

Cooks Tips

The original recipe is here plus a version for the modern day cook.