Fluffy Frosting

Ingredients

• Put 1 cup sugar
• ^ cup cold water
• a pinch of cream of tartar
• whites of 2 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put sugar, cold water, and cream of tartar into a saucepan to cook over a moderate fire.

2. 2

   Remove from fire when it forms a brittle thread in a cup of cold water, and pour it in a very thin stream over the whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry, meanwhile continuing the beating of the eggs.

3. 3

   After syrup is all added, beat 2 minutes, add flavoring and let cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Purity flour cookbook (1917) by E. Warner, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FLUFFY FROSTING Put 1 cup sugar, ^ cup cold water, and a pinch of cream of tartar into a saucepan to cook over a moderate fire. Remove from fire when it forms a brittle thread in a cup of cold water, and pour it in a very thin stream over the whites of 2 eggs

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