Boiled Icing

Recipes Ingredients:

1 c Sugar
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4 tb Water, cold
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1 Egg white, beaten
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1 ts Vanilla
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Recipe Instructions:

DIRECTIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ Add the water to the Sugar and boil until the Syrup spins a thread. Pour the Hot Syrup very slowly into the beaten white of egg, whipping constantly. Flavor with vanilla and Spread the icing on the cake. For Chocolate icing, add 2 Tbsp grated Chocolate to the warm icing. To tint icing: Lemon Juice will whiten icing. The grated rind of an orange will give a yellow color. Strawberry, Raspberry or cranberry Juice will give a pink shade. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936. Converted by MMCONV vers. 1.20