Add butter to hot milk; add sugar slowly to make paste of the right consistency to spread; add flavoring and spread on cake.
Maple Icing. II
1 cup maple syrup
whites of 2 eggs
Boil syrup without stirring until it spins a thread; add slowly to stiffly beaten egg whites; beat with wire whip, preferably on platter, until stiff enough to spread.
Orange Icing
rind of 1 orange
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 cup confectioner's or powdered sugar
white of 1 egg
Grate orange rind and allow gratings to soak for some time in lemon juice; stir juice, sugar and egg together and beat thoroughly. Spread on warm cake.
Jelly Meringue
white of 1 egg
1/2 cup currant or other jelly
Put egg white and jelly together into bowl and beat with egg beater or wire whip until stiff. Spread between layers or on top of cake.