This section is from the book "Lowney's Cook Book", by Maria Willett Howard. Also available from Amazon: Lowney's Cook Book.
1 cup confectioner's sugar.
1 egg white.
1 teaspoon flavoring.
¼ cup Lowney's Cocoa.
1 tablespoon cream or milk.
1 teaspoon butter.
Beat white of egg, sugar and cocoa for five minutes. Add flavoring, milk and melted butter. Spread on cake when cool.
1 cup confectioner's sugar 4 tablespoons strong coffee.
¼ cup Lowney's Cocoa ⅛ teaspoon salt.
Mix cocoa and sugar; add hot coffee. Stir over fire five minutes. Add salt and spread on cake.
2 ounces Lowney's Premium.
Chocolate ½ cup sugar.
2 teaspoons butter.
¼ cup milk.
1 teaspoon sherry 'wine, or.
½ teaspoon vanilla.
Mix chocolate, add other ingredients, and cook until, when dropped in water, a soft ball is formed.
2 ounces Lowney's Premium.
Chocolate ½ cup cream.
1 teaspoon melted butter.
1 egg yolk.
2 cups confectioner's sugar.
½ teaspoon vanilla.
Melt chocolate, add other ingredients, and spread on cake. One cup chopped walnuts makes a chocolate walnut frosting.
Note. - Confectioner's sugar varies in thickening properties. Should this frosting be too thick, dilute with a small quantity of hot water or milk.
1 cup sugar.
⅓ cup hot water.
1 teaspoon lemon juice.
1 egg white.
⅛ teaspoon cream of tartar.
1 teaspoon vanilla.
Boil sugar and water until it threads; pour on to the beaten egg white, pouring in a steady stream and very slowly, adding, while beating, cream of tartar, lemon juice and vanilla; stir until thick. Spread on cold cake.
1 cup sugar ⅓ cup water.
2 egg whites.
1 tablespoon lemon juice.
1 teaspoon vanilla.
Follow rule for cooking Boiled Frosting No. 1.
1 cup confectioner's sugar 1 egg white.
1 teaspoon flavoring extract ½ teaspoon lemon juice.
Mix ingredients and beat until thick.
Same ingredients as Confectioner's Frosting No. 1, omitting vanilla, and flavoring with strawberry, raspberry, or orange juice.
3 tablespoons milk, cream, or boiling water confectioner's sugar flavoring extract.
1 teaspoon lemon juice.
Add sufficient sugar to liquid to make of consistency to spread ; add flavoring and use.
1 cup brown sugar ⅓ cup cream.
Few grains salt.
3 tablespoons caramelized sugar.
Boil sugar and cream till it begins to thread; add caramelized sugar and spread.
2 cups brown sugar 1 cup thin cream.
1 tablespoon butter few drops vanilla.
Mix ingredients except vanilla, and boil without stirring until a soft ball can be formed; add vanilla. Beat until creamy. Spread.
 
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