for Mother's Day
2014
Jane Marie writes:
On birthdays and holidays, I often make a chocolate cake with "Boiled White Icing" as my husband, Bruce, calls it, just like his mother, Mary Jo, used to do for him. It is a wonderful way to remember her for all of us.
Happy Mother's Day to everyone because our mothers brought us into this world and that, in itself, is a miracle and cause to honor these special women, grandmothers, great grandmothers, aunts, neighbors, etc.! A mother's love goes beyond blood.
Mary Jo's Seven Minute Boiled White Icing
You'll need:
- Double boiler with water in the bottom or a 4 quart sauce pan or pie or cake pan filled with a 1/2" of water in which you will place the sauce pan for heating.
Combine in the top of your double boiler or saucepan substitute:
- 1/3 cup boiling water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon cream of tarter
- A few grains of salt
Turn burner setting to medium high and place double boiler on the stove. (Watch to see that the bottom of the double boiler neither boils over or boils dry.)
Add:
- One unbeaten egg white
Beat mixture until soft peaks form when the beaters are stopped and lifted.
Add :
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla just before the frosting is spread on the cake.
This makes enough frosting to cover the top of a 9”X12” cake. The recipe can easily be doubled.
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Fernandina on Amelia Island, Florida
1880s
Grandmother Peeper writes:
Now ain't that the silliest thing. I been amakin' this frosting the last longest! All the Dunnigans just love it and I, also, sos I make a double batch, too. Aunt Noreen tried it once but she forgot ta add the vanilla and it tasted only like eatin' a fork fulla sugar. If it tweren't fer my naner puddin', the family party would have not had no dessert. Nobody said nothin' mean to Noreena but she is so stubborn, she cut herself a piece of her cake and ate it all down. I have ta say, that woman is a good actress cause she didn't never make a face whilst gobblin' the stuff. If ya make it right, and don't forget the vanilla, sure as the world, it'll be one a everybody's favorites.
Also, diary, I like that there is a special day for all the mothers in Jane Marie's time. I'm awonderin' why we don't do that, too. Think I'll be gatherin' some flowers from Miss Ella's roses garden and make a extree perty settin' for the dinner table fer her. She's a extree special mother, and it's best nobody says different. Maybe I'll tell the children ta pick some weeds and give 'um ta Noreena. The children don't know a weed from a flower but old Noreena does and I like to needle her whenever I kin. It might not be the most Christian act, but it sure is fun.
Peeper, Aunt Noreen aka Noreena and Miss Ella Dunnigan are all featured characters in Amelia Island's Goodbye Lie Trilogy set in Victorian Fernandina on Amelia Island, Florida, USA.
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