Twist Candy
To three pounds of loaf sugar put half a pint of water; set it over a slow fire for half an hour; then add to it a teaspoonful of gum Arabic, dissolved, and a tablespoonful of vinegar. When boiled to candy, bright and clear, take it off. Flavor with vanilla, rose, lemon, or orange.
Rub the hands over with a bit of sweet butter, and pull it until it is white; then make it in rolls, and twist or braid it; then cut it in lengths.