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Sugar Icing

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 10

Color the icing as desired for decoration.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 182. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SUGAR ICING. To ONE pound of extra refined sugar add one ounce of fine white starch ; pound finely together and then sift them through gauze ; then beat the whites of three eggs

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