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      Title: Boiled White Icing
 Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
      Yield: 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.
 
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