Boiled Frosting

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 144 cup water
• 14, teaspoon cream of tartar
• whites of 2 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar and cream of tartar in a sauce pan, add water, stir until mixture begins to boil.

2. 2

   When syrup drops from a wooden spoon thick like honey, remove from stove and add 8 tablespoons of syrup to stiffly beaten whites, beating constantly.

3. 3

   Return remaining syrup to stove and continue cooking until syrup spins a thread at least 5 inches long, pour syrup in a thin stream into the first mixture and beat until cool.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Carbon County cook book (1926), page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Frosting. 2 cups sugar, 144 cup water, 14, teaspoon cream of tartar, whites of 2 eggs

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