Fillings and Icings
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…