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Wedding Cakes, Saccharine Icing for

From Recipes for the million, 1891

Serves 12

Icing will harden as the cake cools.

Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 225. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WEDDING CAKES, Saccharine Icing for. — Well mix two pounds of double refined sugar with two ounces of fine starch, and sift it through a gauze sieve ; now beat the whites of five eggs

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