Water Icing
Ingredients
Directions
Make the icing
Pour the boiling water into the icing sugar and mix well until combined.
Use and store
Use as required.
If not all used at once, store the icing in a stone jar covered with a damp cloth.
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
- Icing sugar
- Provides sweetness and bulk, forming the body of the icing.
- Boiling water
- Dissolves the sugar into a smooth, spreadable liquid 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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