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Confectioners’ Frosting

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

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons Boiling Water Or Cream
  • As needed Confectioners’ Sugar
  • As needed Flavoring

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    To liquid add enough sifted sugar to make of right consistency to spread; then add flavoring. Fresh fruit juice may be used in place of boiling water. This is a most satisfactory frosting, and is both easily and quickly made.

Public domainHistorical recipeCAKE FILLINGS AND FROSTINGS

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Where this recipe comes from

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

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