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Chocolate Frosting III

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

Public domain source

Gather

Ingredients

  • 2 squares Chocolate
  • 1 teaspoon Butter
  • 3 tablespoons Hot Water
  • As needed Confectioners’ Sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon Vanilla

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Melt chocolate over boiling water, add butter and hot water. Cool, and add sugar to make of right consistency to spread. Flavor with vanilla.

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Where this recipe comes from

Chocolate Frosting III, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.