{"id":5306,"slug":"how-to-cook-sugar-to-a-blow","title":"How to cook sugar to a blow.","description":"From The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (1919) by Victor Hirtzler.","ingredients_raw":["one pound of sugar","one gill of water"],"ingredients_norm":["sugar","water"],"steps":["Dissolve one pound of sugar in one gill of water, and put on fire to cook.","After about five minutes of good boiling dip a skimmer into it and remove immediately.","Let the syrup drain a little, and then blow through.","If small air bubbles fly out the sugar is cooked to a blow. If no air bubbles fly continue cooking until they do. It may possibly require some time to get it right."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39550","source_ref":"pg:39550:w67:8","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.98,"content_hash":"c7ee25227289941a79ff334fd18f526bcd0159814ba9d56d95ff444eeaaef43f","created_at":"2026-08-02T16:42:55Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe (1919), reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/how-to-cook-sugar-to-a-blow"}