Seven-Minute Icing (1927)

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  Display Ad 11 -- No Title; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Feb 11, 1927; pg. 10, 1 pgs:
      _Seven Minute Icing_
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar or baking powder
1 egg
3 tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Place all ingredients in top part of doible broiler, having water in lower part boiling.  Beat together until thick enough to spread.  Add vanilla.
_Precaution_--Have fine sugar or melt it in water before adding egg.
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Crisco is used by Mrs. Lilla Pauline Cross in The Washington Post Cooking School
CRISCO