Plain Icing
Put the white of one egg into a bowl with a half-teaspoonful of water, and beat till light. Then stir in a cup of sifted powdered sugar, and put on the cake while that is still warm, and smooth it over with a wet knife.
Chocolate Icing
Melt one square of Baker's chocolate in a saucer over the teakettle, and put in two tablespoonfuls of milk and stir till smooth. Add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a small half-teaspoonful of butter, and stir again. Take it off the stove and put it on the cake while both are warm.
Caramel Icing
1/2 cup of milk. 2 cups brown sugar. Butter the size of an egg. 1 teaspoonful of vanilla.
Mix the butter, sugar, and milk, and cook till it is smooth and thick, stirring all the time and watching it carefully to see that it does not burn; take it off and put in the vanilla, and spread while warm on a warm cake.
Doughnuts
Margaret's mother did not approve of putting this rule in her cook-book, because she did not want Margaret ever to eat rich things; but her grandmother said it really must go in, for once in awhile very nice doughnuts would not hurt anybody.
1 1/2 cups of sugar. 1/2 cup of butter. 3 eggs. 1 1/2 cups of milk. 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder. Pinch of salt.