Name: Caramel Icing for Cake
Ingredients: sugar; water; fresh marshmallows; powdered sugar; juice from canned fruit

Caramel Icing for Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Cook sugar and water until it forms a soft ball in cold water.
Beat the mixture until stiff.
For a quick frosting, stir juice from canned fruit with powdered sugar until thick.
Add fresh marshmallows to boiling frosting and beat until smooth.

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.