Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Spun Sugar II: 250 g sugar boiled with 1 1/4 dl water to the hard crack stage, mixed with 8 g glucose, cooled quickly, and flung into threads over an oiled rod on an oiled surface. The threads are cut with a hot knife and placed at once around the dessert; can be colored.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 449 (falt i det fri)
The smaller and more practical version of spun sugar, in which the threads are flung over an oiled rod instead of a knife. The straw ring held the pan tilted so the syrup gathered and stayed warm while you worked.
Boil the sugar
Melt the sugar in the water and boil to the hard crack stage.
Add glucose and cool
Stir in the glucose and cool quickly by dipping the pan for a moment in cold water. Then set the pan slightly tilted in a straw ring (or a pot ring).
Prepare the base
Lightly oil a marble slab or a couple of baking sheets. Also oil a rod and place it across the slab, raised well up from the surface.
Fling the threads
Fling the sugar to the right and left over the rod with a whisk or a wide fork, until you have the amount you need.
Use at once
Cut the threads with a hot knife and place them at once around whatever is to be decorated. The sugar can be colored with various sugar colorings.
Glucose = glucose/glucose syrup. The straw ring can be replaced with a pot ring or a folded cloth. The marble slab can be replaced with parchment paper on the counter.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Revised 1949 recipe
From the revised edition of the Big Cookbook.

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