Title: Frosting or Icing
Categories: Ethnic
Yield: 4 Servings

In the first place, the eggs should be cold, and the platter on which they are to be beaten also cold. Allow, for the white of one egg, one small teacupful of powdered sugar. Break the eggs and throw a small handful of the sugar on them as soon as you begin beating; keep adding it at intervals until it is all used up. The eggs must not be beaten until the sugar has been added in this way, which gives a smooth, tender frosting, and one that will dry much sooner than the old way.

Spread with a broad knife evenly over the cake, and if it seems too thin, beat in a little more sugar. Cover the cake in two coats, the second after the first has become dry or nearly so. If you wish to ornament with figures or flowers, make up rather more icing, keep about one-third out until that on the cake is dried; then, with a clean glass syringe, apply it in such forms as you desire and dry as before; what you keep out to ornament may be tinted pink with cochineal, blue with indigo, yellow with saffron, or the grated rind of an orange strained through a cloth, green with spinach juice, and brown with chocolate, purple with cochineal and indigo. Strawberry or currant and cranberry juices color a delicate pink.

Set the cake in a cool oven with the door open, to dry, or in a draught in an open window.

Entered by Carolyn Shaw 4/96 The Dunkard-Dutch Cookbook @1965 BSN 911-410-10-4

SUBMITTED BY: CAROLYN SHAW 29 APR 96

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