Recipe of Boiled White Icing - Food Recipes

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Title: Boiled White Icing
Categories : Cakes, Chocolate
Serving size: 1 servings 2 c Sugar 1 c Water 2 tb Light corn syrup 2 Egg whites 1/8 ts Salt 1/8 ts Cream of tartar 1 ts Vanilla ix sugar, water and syrup and cook, stirring often, until sugar is dissolved. Boil until syrup reaches soft ball stage, 234~, on a candy thermometer. Beat eggs with salt until frothy. Add 1/3 of boiling syrup to the egg whites in a thin stream, beating constantly. Then return syrup to heat and cook a little more. Add second third of boiling syrup in the same manner. Place remainder of syrup on heat to reach crack stage, about 290~; add to egg whites. Add cream of tartar and vanilla. Whip until creamy. If icing gets too hard and stiff, add a few drops of water at a time until it is right consistency for smooth spreading. Ice the top and sides of a chocolate cake or 1, 2, 3, 4 Cake. From. Fiesta, Favorite Recipes of South Texas. -----