½ pint water.
Boil until it ropes. Have ready the whites of seven eggs well beaten, pour the syrup into a bowl, and beat until milk-warm. Then put in the eggs, and beat for an hour.—Mrs. W.
Hot Icing.
Dissolve one pint powdered sugar in two or three tablespoonfuls water, and boil.
Beat the whites of four eggs to a strong froth; add the hot sugar, stirring in till smooth. Beat about two minutes and flavor to your taste, spread on the cake, and put in a hot place.—Mrs. P.
Icing.
Whites of two eggs, beaten to a froth.
One pound of sugar, dissolved and boiled in a small teacup of water.
Then strain the sugar and pour it into the egg, beating it hard until cool.
Add one-half teaspoonful lemon acid.—L. D. L.