This section is from the book "Date Cook Book", by May Sowles Metzler. Also available from Amazon: Date Cook Book.
Boiled Frosting-One and one-quarter cups sugar and 1/2 cup hot water boiled together till it spins a thread. Let cool a minute or two, and pour slowly over the well beaten whites of 2 eggs, beating all the while. Flavor. Stir in chopped dates and nuts mixed.
Mrs. A. G. Proctoe,
Coachella, Calif.
2 cups sugar 1/2 cup water
Let stand until it dissolves. Boil slowly without stirring until it threads from the spoon.
Beat whites of eggs to a stiff froth. When syrup is slightly cool, stir in gradually, and beat until cold.
Flavor to taste, and add chopped dates.
Mrs. T. M. Miller, Los Angeles, Calif.
1/2 pound dates, weighed after 1/3 cup boiling water stoning 1 tablespoonful lemon juice
1/4 cup sugar
Mix ingredients, and cook in a double boiler until thick enough to spread. Dates should be put through a meat chopper.
One cup means 1/2 pint. Cup, tablespoon and teaspoon all mean level measurements.
Juice and grated rind of 1 1 tablespoonful lemon juice orange 1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter Yolks of 2 eggs well beaten
Mix thoroughly, put in a double boiler over hot water. Stir till like thick custard.
One-half cup of finely chopped dates stirred in.
Grated rind of 1 orange Thicken with powdered sugar
2 tablespoons orange juice
Mbs. J. G. Nusbaum,
Coachella, Calif.
 
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