Creamy White Frosting
Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), page 88. Vision transcription from the scanned page; needs review.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract, orange extract, or almond extract
- 4 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 3 to 4 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Beat shortening, vanilla, and extract with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds.
- Slowly add half of the powdered sugar, beating well. Add 2 tablespoons milk.
- Gradually beat in remaining powdered sugar and enough remaining milk to make of spreading consistency.
Source and image provenance
Historical recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), Meredith Corporation. View the cited page at the Internet Archive.
Image credit: Image attribution: "Buttercreme in einer Glasschüssel-8493.jpg" by Raimond Spekking; license: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buttercreme_in_einer_Glassch%C3%BCssel-8493.jpg. Representative photo; cropped/resized.
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