The Dixie Cook-Book

“The best is none too good.” Southern family receipts gathered across generations and printed in Atlanta in 1883 — and, in the same volume, everything else a household was expected to know: the laundry, the sick-room, dressmaking, babies, and a year's bill of fare.

Ornamental Icing

15 receipts in this part of The Dixie Cook-Book.

By Prof. C. H. King

Now Ornamental icing consists in working two or more colors of icing on one surface, such, for instance, as pink and white, or chocolate…

Crystallization

Crystallization consists in simply covering the cake while the icing is wet with granulated sugar, plain or pink. (For coloring sugar pink…

Artistic Piping, with Diagrams

For the benefit of those who wish to excel in the art of ornamenting bride or other cakes with icing (technically called "piping,") I give…

Ornamental Icing (To decorate or garnish)

to decorate or garnish with butter, lard, or savory jelly, and who are not able to cut their own root flowers. Root flowers are usually cut…

Diagrams

(351) leaf as long as desired (No. 25); by giving the cone a wavy motion you form the veins in the leaf. Then put two together (No. 26)…

Meringue Icing

Beat the whites of six eggs to a very stiff froth (you can not beat them too stiff; and if they are not stiff the meringue will not be too…

To Make Water Icing

Take any quantity of powdered sugar you require, add cold water enough to it to form a thick paste (remember, it will not take much); beat…

Chocolate Icing

دو Ask any confectioner for a piece of "Baker's eagle cocoa; " and if you can not procure that, ask any grocer for pure cocoa in block, or…

Cream Chocolate Icing

What is known as cream chocolate icing is done in the same manner, using half cocoa and half pure cream, and sweetening it to taste. In…

Dessert Cake

A dessert cake (proper) consists of either a pound or sponge cake mixture baked in a high mold; if you have no other use, an ice cream mold…

Dessert Russe

This may be made of either sponge or pound-cake mixture, and baked in a fancy mold, If the prescribed mold is not available, an ordinary…

The Chantilly Custard

The plates from 1 to 4, inclusive, show the manner of making the Gatian for the custard, which is thus described: First, procure a mold for…

Raised Pie

We here present an original design, composed of five distinct plates, arranged and numbered for practical use. The illustration (page 367)…

Ornamental Icing (Follows Take a quarter)

follows: Take a quarter of a pound of lard for every pound of flour, add half a pint of water, also a pinch of salt; to make it, add the…

To Ornament a Jelly Cake

Trim off the edge of the jelly cake, then give it a thin coating of water icing (see water icing); next have a cone of white icing ready…

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