825. Royal Iceing for Cakes

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (6)
  1. Have ready a pound of the best white sugar, which pound well and sift through a silk sieve.
  2. Put it into a basin with the whites of three eggs.
  3. Beat well together with a wooden spoon, adding the juice of half a lemon.
  4. Keep beating well until it becomes very light and hangs in flakes from the spoon.
  5. If it should be rather too stiff in mixing, add a little more white of egg, if, on the contrary, too soft, a little more sugar.
  6. It is then ready for use where required.
Original Text · last edited 12 days ago
825. Royal Iceing for Cakes.—Have ready a pound of the best white sugar, which pound well and sift through a silk sieve, put it into a basin with the whites of three eggs, beat well together with a wooden spoon, adding the juice of half a lemon, keep beating well until it becomes very light and hangs in flakes from the spoon (if it should be rather too stiff in mixing, add a little more white of egg, if, on the contrary, too soft, a little more sugar), it is then ready for use where required.
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