th
and thick; add salt and vanilla. Spread between layers of cake.
MARSHMALLOW FILLING OR ICING
1-3/4 cups sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup marshmallows
Whites of 3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon Dr. Price's Baking Powder
Mix sugar, salt and water; add marshmallows and boil without stirring
until syrup spins a thread; then add slowly to beaten egg whites; add
baking powder and beat until firm enough to spread.
MAPLE ICING. I
1/2 teaspoon butter,
2 tablespoons hot milk
1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon Dr. Price's Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon maple flavoring
Add butter to hot milk; add sugar slowly to make paste of the right
consistency to spread; add baking powder and flavoring and spread on
top and sides of cake.
MAPLE ICING. II
1 cup maple syrup
Whites of 2 eggs
Boil syrup without stirring until it spins a thread; add very slowly
to stiffly beaten whites of eggs; beat well with wire whip, preferably
on a platter until stiff enough to spread.
FRUIT FILLING
2 cups granulated sugar
2/3 cup boiling water
Whites of 2 eggs
1/4 cup chopped nuts
1 cup mixed figs, raisins, citron, cherries and pineapple, cut fine
Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; beat
whites until dry; add syrup gradually, beating constantly; when cool
add nuts and fruit. Spread between layers and on top of cake.
ORANGE ICING
rind of 1 orange
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 cup confectioners' or powdered sugar
white of 1 egg
Grate orange rind and allow gratings to soak for some time in lemon
juice; stir juice, sugar and egg together and beat thoroughly. Spread
on warm cake.
JELLY MERINGUE
white of 1 egg
1/2 cup currant or other jelly
Put unbeaten egg white and jelly together into bowl and beat with egg
beater or wire whip until stiff. Spread between layers or on top of
cake.
SEA FOAM ICING
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup water
white of 1 egg
1 teaspoon Dr. Price's Baking Powder
Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; add
hot syrup slowly to beaten egg white, beating continually, preferably
on platter with wire whip. Add baking powder, when icing foams put
between layers and on top of cake.
COCOA ICING
1 cup confectioners' sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa
white of 1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon melted butter
1 tablespoon cream
Add sugar and cocoa slowly to beaten egg white. Then add vanilla,
melted butter
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