Glycerine

Pigletlover

Does anyone know where I might get glycerine? I tried Dunnes & Tesco at the weekend but they didn't have it. Something's telling me it could have been withdrawn a couple of years ago but I could just be mixing it up with something else. If it is no longer available, does anyone know of any alternatives (to make icing for a Christmas cake)?

olaola

Icing sugar??

CJhaughey

Any pharmacy should have glycerine

Alun

olaola wrote: »

Icing sugar??

Glycerine is used as a softening agent in making icing to stop the icing setting too hard.

olaola

Alun wrote: »

Glycerine is used as a softening agent in making icing to stop the icing setting too hard.

I just use royal icing sugar and water. You can get the rolley out stuff I think. Never used it myself though.

Tree

the royal icing sugar has a speecial ingredient you dont get in regular icing sugar.

Pigletlover

I'll try the chemist so, thanks CJhaughey. I used Royal Icing before but I want to use a couple of different textures and one of the recipes I have says I need glycerine. I don't like the roll out stuff but thanks olaola.

Alun

Tree wrote: »

the royal icing sugar has a special ingredient you don't get in regular icing sugar.

Aah, never knew there was such a thing as royal icing sugar ... maybe the secret ingredient is glycerine?

Pigletlover

I just ran across to the chemist there and picked up a bottle of glycerine so all's well

rubadub

It is in health food shops too. Glycerine is used as a laxative or "stool softener". It is also commonly used in liquers, that is why they are so thick, it is not just sugar, even some unsweetened vodkas use it to smooth out the taste.

olaola

Alun wrote: »

Aah, never knew there was such a thing as royal icing sugar ... maybe the secret ingredient is glycerine?

I think its powdered egg whites?

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Correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_icing

Royal icing is a hard white icing, made from softly beaten egg whites, icing sugar (powdered sugar), and sometimes lemon juice.

Alun

Yes, but in the same wiki article it also says "Glycerine is occasionally added to prevent the icing from setting too hard." which is what I thought it was for.

Just icing sugar and water with no egg white (either as an ingredient of royal icing sugar or added separately) will give you a very soft icing, I think. Adding the egg white makes it harder, rock hard sometimes, hence adding the glycerine to soften it up a bit, but still remaining fairly hard.

sig53

I bought Glycerin at TRACEY'S PHARMACY on Eden Quay. 100ml for €2.59.
There is a green + above the stores. Next to 29 bus stop.

Mr Magnolia

I'd say the OP has found it at this stage after nearly 4 years of searching...

Also, a lot of posters find large, bold, coloured fonts a little irritating.

sig53

The post was not for OP whoever that is. It is for the general public. I went searching for glycerin on the net and google led me to this thread which didn't answer my needs. I found it by chance in in TRACEY'S PHARMACY. So I like to do the charity of saving others the runaround. If you don't like bold print to emphasise a name, you might consider editing your own bold print name. cheers.:p

Mr Magnolia

sig53 wrote: »

The post was not for OP whoever that is. It is for the general public. I went searching for glycerin on the net and google led me to this thread which didn't answer my needs. I found it by chance in in TRACEY'S PHARMACY. So I like to do the charity of saving others the runaround. If you don't like bold print to emphasise a name, you might consider editing your own bold print name. cheers.:p

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