Icing for White Cake

Ingredients

• two cups pulverized sugar
• three teaspoons vanilla
• the whites of two eggs
• two teaspoons of citric acid

Method

1. 1

   Boil sugar to syrup, add vanilla.

2. 2

   When cold, mix in beaten egg whites and citric acid.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Common sense recipe book (1898) by Sarah Allen, page 95. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

the whites of two eggs whipped to a stiff froth, add pul- verized sugar to make enough to spread with a knife; flavor to suit the taste. A tablespoonful of ‘““White Moss” cocoanut im- proves it and will be found to set quicker. A few drops of cake coloring will give a beautiful pink. BROS TING MAD EO EASY. Use powdered sugar, and common sense, by stirring in milk a little at a time until sugar is dissolved as it were, or fit to spread; add a small quantity of lemon juice. Do not heat 1t, just make quick work of it, and see how fine it works. CHOCOLATE CREAM FROSTING. White of one egg beaten to a stiff froth, one tablespoonful of cold water, add confectioner’s sugar till thick enough to spread. Flavor with vanilla. Spread thick on the cake. Grate half a cake of chocolate, dissolve it in a bowl over the teakettle, beat until smooth and pour over the cream frosting on the cake, CHOCOLATE FROSTING. One-half cup chocolate grated, one cup sugar, yolk of one egg, small cup half full of sweet milk; put on stove and stir while cooking till it will candy when dropped in cold water. Only one trial necessary to prove the superiority of EAGLE BAKING POWDER 226 BOVRIL IMPROVES STEWED MEAT ‘BOILED FROSTING. One cup of sugar moistened with six téaspoonfuls of water and boiled until it will hair as it drips from a spoon. Stir it slowly into the beaten white of one egg, beating rapidly. Beat until cool and then spread on cake. PC TING CHO) Ruan Neu A Be Instead \ ‘of "beating -the ‘eggs to. ai-stiff, froth, as> is “gent erally the case, take four tablespoons of sugar to the egg and stir thoroughly, then spread on cake; will make a much harder icing than beating it. [CE CREAM sIGING: FOR WHIDE CAKE, Mirsiie: Buyer: Two cups pulverized sugar boiled to a thick syrup, add three teaspoons vanilla; when cold, add the whites of two eggs well beaten, and flavored with two teaspoons of citric acid. FROSTING FOR WHITE CAKE.

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