Three-minute icing

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 Egg whites
½ cup Sugar
⅛ teaspoon Salt
2 tablespoons Cold water
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
OR almond extract

Directions

1. Beat egg whites, sugar, salt, and cold water until blended. Place the mixture in a double boiler over boiling water.

2. Beat these ingredients with a wire whisk 3 minutes, or until stiff.

Remove the icing from the heat. 3. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract. Beat the icing well. Spread it over jellied fruit, pies or tarts, cakes, etc., that have been cooled. Top it with chopped nuts or coconut if desired. This is a soft icing. The recipe does not indicate the volume of icing that results.

Recipe by: The Joy of Cooking, 1975, p. 727 Posted to EAT-LF Digest by "Ellen Pickett" <ellen@...> on Feb 4, 1999, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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