American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

No. 3. Ice-Cream Filling

Original Recipe

Make an icing as follows: Three cups of sugar, one of water; boil to a thick, clear syrup, or until it begins to be brittle; pour this, boiling hot, over the well-beaten whites of three eggs; stir the mixture very briskly, and pour the sugar in slowly; beat it, when all in, until cool. Flavor with lemon or vanilla extract. This, spread between any white cake layers, answers for "Ice-Cream Cake."

Ingredients

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  • 3 cups of sugar
  • 1 of water
  • 1 thick
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 extract

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Make an icing as follows: Three cups of sugar, one of water; boil to a thick, clear syrup, or until it begins to be brittle; pour this, boiling hot, over the _well-beaten_ whites of three eggs; stir the mixture very briskly, and pour the sugar in slowly; beat it, when all in, until cool.

  2. 2

    Flavor with lemon or vanilla extract.

  3. 3

    This, spread between any white cake layers, answers for "Ice-Cream Cake.".

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