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Icing for Fruit Cake

Icing made from scalded sugar, boiling water, and vanilla for fruit cake.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Jacqueline Harrison Smith (ed.) · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 1 ingredients
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Icing for Fruit Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald 1 cup of sugar with boiling water and flavor with vanilla. This is very good.

By Jacqueline Harrison Smith (ed.). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolves into the hot water to form a sweet, syrupy base for the icing.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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