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CAKE-MAKING, BAKING, ETC. 17
being cold, or, at least, cool; add vanilla, lemon, or orange extract, rose or cinnamon water, or essence, a teasponful to a tablespoonful, to suit, and dip upon the cake; smoothing, if necessary, with a knife wet in cold water,
Icing, Boiled, that will not Break. —White sugar, 1 cup; white of 1 egg; put water enough into the sugar to dissolve it; put it on the fire and let it boil till it will " hair. " Beat the white of the egg to a stiff froth; pour the heated sugar on to the froth and stir briskly until cool enough to stay on the cake. The icing should not be applied until the cake is nearly or quite cold. This quantity will frost the tops of two common sized cakess. —Godey'a lady's-Book.
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