Boiled Icing Recipe 2 ingredients

• ½ pound sugar
• ¼ cup water
• 2 whites of egg
• flavoring

To prepare this Boiled Icing Recipe 2, first dissolve sugar in the water and boil to 220 degrees F. Put your pan containing the dissolved sugar and water (syrup) on a hot fire and wait until it boils.To test for 220 degree temperature.

Take with a spoon a little of the syrup and drop slowly in cold water. The sugar should drop out from the spoon into threads.

As more water evaporates and the temperature gets higher, a sample of syrup dropped into cold water forms on the main mass spherical globules, that resemble dark pearls. They will gradually mix with the rest. When this happens, remove from fire. Beat the whites of eggs stiff and pour the syrup (sugar) hot in a thin stream into the whites of egg. Beat. until cold and thick. Flavor to taste. Spread on cake.