Cake Decoration in White Icing

Ingredients

• two sheets of note paper
• melt some white wax and mutton tallow in equal parts
• mix up some stiff icing

Method

1. 1

   Cut the note paper into a scroll pattern and dip in melted wax and tallow.

2. 2

   Lay on a board and pipe icing around the edges.

3. 3

   Allow to dry and repeat on the other side.

4. 4

   Assemble the scrolls to create a stand for the cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 346. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cake Decoration in White Icing. BY JESSUP WHITEHEAD. Cake Center Piece, Stand for Small Sweets, to ^o with Floral Decorations. Served at a terrapin suppef given by Mrs. R, J. Lowry, Atlanta, Georgia. This pattern has been redrawn large and distinct to show the details plainly for the purpose of this article. The photographer remarked that " it was a daisy," and he squared himself three or four different ways to get the best expression of it. The pure white and fragile structure was orna- mented with bright colored sugar flowers set upon it and around the edges and in the spaces. It was an ornamented cake made to serve as a center piece among some elaborate floral decorations at a party supper 198 COOKING FOR PROFIT, given by a lady of Atlanta, Georgia. The design was finished for the purpose by having" the stands and baskets filled up with bonbons^ maca- roons^ kisses^ and the lightest kinds of fancy small cakes^ and was hung with trailing sprays of smilax. In such positions these tall pieces harmo- nize most perfectly with floral deco- rations, the effect of which they highten without being too obtrusive and without the least suggestion of children's play-house figures such as attaches to the gum paste temples and pavilions of the ordinary style. HOW THEY ARE MADE. For a single stand take two sheets of note paper and keeping them doubled as they are, cut out a scroll pattern with a pair of scissors, which when opened out will be like this: Fig. 5. Cut them apart down the back and you have four paper patterns like that on the left side of the cut. Take a tin plate and melt some white wax and mutton tallow in equal parts, dip the paper patterns in it and lay them each one on a separate piece of board or a shingle. Then mix up some stiff icing

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