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Cream Maple Sugar Frosting

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

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 1 lb Soft Maple Sugar
  • 1 cup Cream

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Break sugar in small pieces, put in saucepan with cream, and stir occasionally until sugar is dissolved. Boil without stirring until a ball can be formed when mixture is tried in cold water. Beat until of right consistency to spread.

Public domainHistorical recipeCAKE FILLINGS AND FROSTINGS

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Where this recipe comes from

Cream Maple Sugar Frosting, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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