A Nice Frosting Without Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
In a saucepan, combine the sugar and water.
Boil for 5 minutes; do not boil longer to avoid hardness.
Remove from heat and stir until thick enough to spread.
Add flavoring to taste.
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
- Granulated sugar
- Dissolves into the water and, once boiled and cooled, thickens into a spreadable frosting.
- Water
- Dissolves the sugar so it can be boiled into a syrup that sets as it thickens.
The step that matters
Boil for 5 minutes, no longer. Boiling sugar syrup drives off water and concentrates the sugar, so the mixture thickens as it cools. Boiling too long over-concentrates it, and the frosting turns hard instead of spreadable.
“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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