Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes

Christine Terhune Herrick's 1905 subscription set, Books Three and Four complete - soup stock to cheese straws, with the famous chefs of the United States listed on the title page.

Fillings and Icings

9 recipes in this part of Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes.

Cream Filling

2 cupfuls sugar, 3 cupfuls milk, 3 heaping tablespoonfuls corn starch, yolks 5 eggs, 1 table-spoonful butter, 2 teaspoonfuls extract…

Cocoanut Filling

1 cupful grated cocoanut, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful milk, 2 eggs. Cook all together five minutes.

Chocolate Cream Filling

1/2 cake chocolate, grated, 2/3 cupful milk, 1/2 cupful sugar, 1 tablespoonful butter, pinch salt, 1 teaspoonful extract vanilla. Boil…

Chocolate Filling

1/4 cake chocolate, grated, 1/2 cupful milk, yolk 1 egg, 1 cupful sugar, 1 teaspoonful extract vanilla. Boil sugar, chocolate, and milk…

Caramel Filling for Cake

1 pound brown sugar, 1/2 cupful cream or not quite 1/2 cupful milk, lump of butter size of a small egg. Boil five minutes; flavor to taste…

Boiled Icing

Boil 1 cupful granulated sugar with 1/2 cupful water till it ropes when dropped from fork; pour gradually over stiffly whipped whites of 2…

Chocolate Water Icing

Melt 3 ounces fine chocolate in a few spoonfuls water until creamy. Boil 2 cupfuls granulated sugar with 1 cupful water, without stirring…

Maple Sugar Frosting

Boil 1/2 pound broken maple sugar with 3 tablespoonfuls water till dissolved and thick enough to rope when dropped from fork. Pour…

Marshmallow Frosting

Heat 2 tablespoonfuls milk and 6 tablespoonfuls sugar over fire; boil 6 minutes without stirring. In double boiler heat 1/4 pound cut…

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