Snow Balls

Ingredients

• one-half cup butter
• one and one-half cups fine granulated sugar
• one cup tepid water
• three of sifted pastry flour
• one teaspoon vanilla
• pinch of salt
• two teaspoons baking powder
• the stiffly beaten whites of four eggs
• one pint granulated sugar
• one cup water
• the stiffly whipped whites of two eggs
• one teaspoon ^flavoring

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter; add sugar and beat till very light.

2. 2

   Add water and flour alternately, then vanilla and salt.

3. 3

   Beat for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Lastly, add baking powder and egg whites, bake in gem pans for 25 minutes.

5. 5

   Boil sugar and water till it threads, let stand, then beat and add egg whites.

6. 6

   Ice cakes and roll in coconut.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SNOW BALLS. Mrs. Geo. W. Jones. Cream one-half cup butter; add gradually one and one-half cups fine granulated sugar and beat till very light. Add alternately one cup tepid water with three of sifted pastry flour, one teaspoon vanilla and pinch of salt. Beat steadily for ten minutes. Lastly add two teaspoons baking powder and the stiffly beaten whites of four eggs, and bake in gem pans in a rather hot oven 'for 25 minutes. Boil one pint granulated sugar with one cup water till the mixture threads ; let stand for five minutes after taking from fire, then beat till it begins to cloud, and quickly add the stiffly whipped whites of two eggs, one teaspoon ^flavoring

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