Cream Cheese Frosting
Arwilda kept three different recipes with this title.
Betty's abbreviated cheese-frosting partial recipe
Betty's Decorative Recipe Tin Chse frosting card
From Betty.
Ingredients
- 1/4 C butter melted
- 3/4 pkg. conf. sugar
- A line beginning 6 followed by an unclear short unit-like mark and cream
- Vanilla, salt, cream
Cream-and-milk conflict partial recipe
Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
Ingredients
- 1 - 3 oz pkg cheese
- 2½ C conf sugar
- ¼ C cream
- 1 t vanilla
Directions
- soften cheese & milk - add sugar
Temperature: soften cheese
Equipment: mixing bowl; mixing utensil
Notes
- the ingredient list says 1/4 cup cream, while the direction says milk; vanilla appears in the ingredients but never in the method
Rich cheese frosting with egg yolks and hot water
Decorative Recipe Tin Rich Chse. Frosting card
Ingredients
- 1½ C sifted conf. sugar
- 3 oz. Chse. melted
- salt
- 2½ T hot water
- 3 egg yolks
- ½ t vanilla
- ¼ C soft butter
Directions
- add half sugar to chse. mix well, add water & remaining sugar. beat in egg yolks grad. add vanilla & butter & beat.
Temperature: cheese melted; water hot; butter soft
Equipment: mixing bowl and beater or electric mixer
Notes
- Salt is listed without an amount.
Compare the cards
Cheese, sugar, liquid, butter, and egg-yolk formula
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- 3 ounces cheese, 2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, 1/4 cup cream in the list but milk in the method, and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
- Decorative Recipe Tin Rich Chse. Frosting card
- 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, 3 ounces melted cheese, salt without amount, 2 1/2 tablespoons hot water, 3 egg yolks, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and 1/4 cup soft butter.
- Betty's Decorative Recipe Tin Chse frosting card
- 1/4 cup melted butter, 3/4 package confectioners' sugar, an unresolved line beginning 6 and ending cream, plus vanilla, salt, and cream without stated amounts.
Preparation method
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- A short method is included, but it conflicts on cream versus milk and omits the listed vanilla.
- Decorative Recipe Tin Rich Chse. Frosting card
- A complete staged method adds half the sugar to cheese, then water and remaining sugar, followed by egg yolks, vanilla, and butter.
- Betty's Decorative Recipe Tin Chse frosting card
- No preparation method is included.
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