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# Icing

# Ingredients

• 4 cups sugar
• 1/2 pint hot water
• 4 eggs beaten
• citric acid about size of pea
• vanilla

# Directions

Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and over cake.

This keeps a long time in a locked closet.

# Credits and Notes

Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
- Burton.

• See also: this other icing recipes
• Some or all of the text on this page was taken from The Suffrage Cook Book (1915) - this work is out of copyright. It is not always clear on who wrote what recipe.

This page was last edited on 2026-09-09 03:37:30.

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