1 cup powdered sugar.
1 tablespoonful boiling water.
Grated rind of 1 orange.
1 tablespoonful orange juice.
Put the sugar in a bowl, add the rind, then the water and juice, and spread at once on the cake. This icing must be very thick when made, and if it seems thin put in more sugar.
CARAMEL FILLING
2 cups brown sugar.
½ cup cream or milk.
Butter the size of an egg.
½ teaspoonful vanilla.
Mix all together and cook till it is smooth and thick.
EASY FRUIT-CAKE
Margaret’s Other Aunt begged to have this in the book, because she said it was so simple any little girl could make it, and all the family could help eat it, as they were especially fond of fruit-cake.
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
1 cup milk.
1 cup currants.
1 cup raisins.
1 egg.
1 teaspoonful soda.
2 teaspoonfuls mixed spices.
3 cups flour.
Wash and dry the currants. Buy the seeded raisins and wash these, too, and then chop them. Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg, beaten well without separating, then the sugar with the soda stirred in it, then the milk, then the spice. Measure the flour, and then take out a half-cup of it, and stir in the raisins and currants, to keep them from going to the bottom of the cake when it is baked. Stir these in, add the rest of the flour and beat well. Bake in two buttered cake-tins.