White Mountain Icing
 ( Back to Cookbook Main Menu | Back to Desserts | Back to Icing Recipes )
 

Another wonderful, and much loved, recipe from Emma Ward's family collection.

1/2 cup sugar
2 tbls water
1 tsp vanilla

 1/4 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup egg whites (2 eggs)
Blend the sugar, corn syrup, and water together. Rapidly boil this mixture until it spins a thread 6 to 8 inches.

Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks. Pour the hot syrup mixture into the beaten egg whites, using a stead stream, and beating constantly until the icing stands in very stiff peaks. Blend in the vanilla.