1 cup sugar
1 cup water
3 ozs. chocolate
1 tea-spoon vanilla
Boil the sugar and water together until it forms a syrup which will spin a thread. Add the chocolate and vanilla. Take off the fire and beat well together.
Chocolate Icing—II
Melt two ozs. of chocolate. Add it to the plain icing (see page 65). Flavour with a few drops of vanilla.
Cocoanut Icing
To the plain icing (see [p. 65]), made with rather less sugar than is given, add half a cup of grated or desiccated cocoanut.
Orange Icing
Grate the thin outer rind of an orange. Put it in a cup. Cover it with four tea-spoons orange juice. Let it soak for half-an-hour. Squeeze the juice through a fine cloth. Add to the plain icing (see [p. 65]).
Tutti Frutti Icing
1 oz. blanched and chopped almonds
¹⁄₂ cup stoned and chopped raisins and sliced citron
2 whites of eggs
¹⁄₂ lb. icing sugar