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Cake Filling
From How we cook in Tennessee .., 1906
Serves 3
Attributed to Mrs. W. H. Wilson.
Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 100. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
one pound sugar, quarter pound butter, six eggs; cook in double boiler until thick as honey and put between cake. Half of this recipe makes enough for medium size cake. — Mrs. W. H. Wilson. Lemon and English Walnut Filling. — Squeeze the juice of two large lemons over one pound of granulated sugar. When smooth spread over loaf cake, cut into squares and place one or more English walnut kernels on each square, while soft. Icing for Filling. — Two cups sugar, whites two eggs; put sugar in saucepan with enough water to moisten; have the eggs beaten just enough to break the whites; pour the boiling 174 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. sugar on it, beating all the while. Set the bowl in a larger bowl of ice water and continue beating until it is nice and creamy; flavor with lemon. Maple Nut Frosting. — Boil one and seven-eighths cupful of powdered sugar, one cupful of maple syrup and half a cupful of thin cream together until when it is tried a soft ball may be formed in cold water. Remove from the fire, add three-quarters of a cupful of almonds finely shredded and beat until the frost- ing is of the right consistency to spread. Icing. — Five eggs, three cups sugar, one and one-half cups water; cook the sugar and water until it will harden at once when dropped in cold water. Then pour the boiling sugar on the well beaten whites and beat until stiff. Flavor with lemon or tartaric acid. — Miss Lizzie Treadwell. Icing. — Two cups sugar, seven tablespoons water; cook until it ropes, then pour over the beaten whites of three eggs, stir- ring all the time. — Miss Mary Bond. Icing. — Whites six eggs, three pounds sugar, almost one cup water ; cook till it ropes ; beat eggs stiff ; pour syrup over slow- ly, beating all the while; after beating nicely put in one-eighth teaspoon cream tartar, flavor and beat till stiff. Excellent for filling too. — Mrs. John Parker. Icing for Cake. — Put two cups of sugar in icing pan; break whites four eggs over it; add juice of one large juicy lemon; put this in pan of boiling water and cook until thick, beating all the time.— Mrs. W. H. Wilson. Cooked Icing. — Whites three eggs, three cups sugar, one cup water; put on sugar and water and let boil till it will spin a thread when dropped from a spoon. Beat whites just a little and pour on the boiling syrup, beating all the while until it is cold. If used as a cake filling
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