To Ice a Cake

Item

Title

To Ice a Cake

Date

1694/1795

Description

A recipe for making icing, and directions for icing a cake.

Transcript

Take tow whites of eggs and six spounfuls of roasewater one Pound of best Dubele refined Suger beaten & sifted throu a very fine sive mingle it with the Eges & Rosewater they must be beaten all the time your Cake is backing till it be as white as Snow. when the Cake is backed if it be very Browne [paire] it & with a wing dust it till it be Cleane least it spoile the Couler of the Ice when it is neare Colde then put on your Iceing with a spoune all over the top & about the sides very thick as youre Stuff will a forde so set it in to your oven upon a sive til the Ice be dry not shuting up your oven and when you beat your Iceing Put in a Grane of Musk and Ambergreece finely beaten

Contributor

Ochsner, Elizabeth
Stevens, Jen
Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

Identifier

11