This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
3/4 cup maple sugar 1/3 cup boiling water
1 large tablespoon marshmallow cream
Put maple sugar and boiling water in saucepan, stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved, then boil without stirring until syrup will thread when dropped from tip of spoon. Add marshmallow cream and pour gradually on beaten white of egg, beating constantly. Place over hot water and fold over and over for three minutes, remove from fire and continue folding until the right consistency to spread.
To Maple Marshmallow Frosting add two tablespoons, each, candied pineapple, nut meats, and seeded raisins cut in small pieces.
1/2 cup honey
1 large tablespoon marshmallow cream
White 1 egg
Few drops lemon extract
Boil honey until it forms a firm ball when tried in cold water. Add marshmallow cream, pour slowly over the beaten white of egg and beat until cold. Flavor with lemon extract and spread on cake. If a stiffer frosting is wanted, stir over hot water and fold gently over and over for two minutes.
1/2 cup maple sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Few grains salt
1 cup scalded milk
1 egg
1 tablespoon marshmallow cream
Mix maple sugar, cornstarch and salt, and add scalded milk. Stir in double boiler until thickened, cover and cook fifteen minutes. Add egg slightly beaten and cook two minutes. Fold in marshmallow cream and use when cold.
1/3 cup corn syrup, maple flavor 1/3 cup sugar 1/4 cup rice flour 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup milk scalded 1 egg yolk
1 large tablespoon marshmallow cream
Mix corn syrup, sugar and flour, and add to scalded milk. Cook twenty minutes in double boiler. Add to slightly beaten egg yolk, return to double boiler, cook one minute, cool, fold in marshmallow cream, and add vanilla.
To Maple Marshmallow Filling II add one square of melted unsweetened chocolate just before removing from fire.
1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup white corn syrup 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch Grated rind 1/2 orange
1/4 cup orange juice 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice Yolk 1 egg
1 large tablespoon marshmallow cream
Mix sugar, corn syrup, cornstarch, grated orange rind, orange juice, lemon juice, and cook in double boiler ten minutes, stirring constantly. Add egg yolk slightly beaten, and cook one minute, stirring constantly. When cool, fold in marshmallow cream.
 
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