Icing
| 4 cups sugar ½ pint hot water 4 eggs beaten citric acid about size of pea vanilla |
Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and over cake.
This keeps a long time in a locked closet.
Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Burton.