Name: Fruit Icing
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons fruit juice; 2 heaping tablespoons powdered sugar

Fruit Icing

Ingredients

2 tablespoons fruit juice
2 heaping tablespoons powdered sugar

Directions

Add the fruit juice to the confectioner's icing.
Stir in the powdered sugar until well combined.
Use the icing immediately after making.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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What each ingredient does

Fruit juice: Adds liquid and fruit flavour, thinning the sugar into a spreadable icing.
Powdered sugar: Provides sweetness and body, thickening the juice into a smooth 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.