  
        SUGARPLATE: 1. Mix 12oz sugar and 2oz rosewater in a saucepan  
          
          3. Remove from heat, add a few drops of food colouring and pour onto a plate covered with icing sugar. Cut in to pieces about 1cm across. 
          
        
   Finished sweetmeats: date and ginger; sugarplate; marchpane
          
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        2. Heat and stir until the mixture boils and becomes clear. 
        Be careful not to let it burn.
 
                    
        MARCHPANE: 1. Mix marzipan with food colouring. 
        Use both yellow and white marzipan with red and blue food colouring to get red, orange, green, blue, purple, yellow and white. 
        2. Make into a variety of shapes.  
Leave to dry in a cool place for several days.        
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