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ICING.


BOILED ICING.

1 cup sugar; water to cover and boil. Remove from stove when syrup makes a soft ball dropped in cold water; stir slowly into the beaten white of an egg; flavor.

ORANGE OR LEMON ICING.

Add juice and grated rind of fruit to boiled icing while cooking.

MOCCO FROSTING.

1 1/2 cups pulverized sugar; 1 tablespoon melted butter; 2 tablespoons coffee; 2 tablespoons cocoa; 2 tablespoons vanilla.

MRS. D. O. HERBERT.

CARAMEL FROSTING.

2 cups C. sugar; 1/2 cup cream; boil. When cool enough not to cook the egg, put in 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 tablespoon butter and 1 egg beaten very light; stir until cold.

MRS. J. B. JONES.

MAPLE FONDANT.

1 cup yellow or maple sugar; 1/2 cup thin cream; boil together 15 minutes, take from fire and stir constantly till it stiffens; spread quickly on warm cake, as it hardens very fast.

FIG FILLING.

1 pound of figs ground fine; 1 cup water; 1 cup sugar. Cook until it jellies.

MARSHMALLOW FROSTING.

Stir marshmallows which have been quartered into boiled icing, as you stir sugar into the egg.

CARAMEL ICING.

2 cups sugar; 2-3 cup sweet milk; butter size of egg; boil 15 minutes; beat until cool and flavor with vanilla.

NELLIE M. SHAIN.

SOUR CREAM FROSTING.

1/2 cup thick sour cream, 1 cup sugar and cook until it hairs; then add 1 cup chopped nuts and stir until cool enough to spread.

MISS MYRTLE DEAN.

ORANGE OR LEMON FILLING.

1/2 cup butter; yolks of 4 eggs; 1 cup sugar; rind and juice of 2 oranges; stir all together; boil in double boiler until thick.

MRS. ELLA GAUL.

LEMON CHESSE FILLING.

6 eggs, well beaten; 1 pound lump sugar; 1/4 pound butter; the juice of 2 lemons and the peel grated. Boil till the sugar is well melted and the whole is of the consistency of honey.

JENNIE HOPLEY.



Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, November, 2017 from The Browning Club Cook Book, pp. 38-39.

 

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