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Bertram raised his eyebrows quizzically. "Very kind, of course; but why ice cream?" he questioned. "I thought it was roast beef and boiled potatoes that was supposed to be handed out to gaunt-eyed hunger." "It is," nodded Billy, "and that's why I think sometimes they'd like ice cream and chocolate frosting.
Well, and then they all filed into the big dining room, and there, to be sure, was their special table in the centre, and in the middle of it was a tall Dutch cake, ornamented with all sorts of nuts and fruits and candies, and gay with layers of frosting, edged and trimmed with coloured devices, and on the very tip-top of all was an elaborate figure in sugar of a little Dutch shepherdess.
The baker fumbled about behind a lot of empty baskets, found a sewing basket, filled it with small rolls some crescent in shape, some like lady fingers, some oval, some almost like biscuit, all with pulverized sugar powdered on them thick as a frosting. He set the little basket upon an empty kneading table. "Wait yet a minute," he commanded, and bustled up a flight of stairs.
Have ready one-half pound sweet chocolate grated; one-fourth pound chopped citron; one-fourth pound almonds, blanched and chopped; five soda crackers, browned and rolled very fine; wineglass of brandy and the juice and grated rind of two lemons; separate the yolks of eggs from the whites; beat yolks well, mix with other ingredients and lastly add the whites whipped to a stiff froth; bake two hours in a slow oven; cover with frosting and ornament with candied fruit.
Dream Cakes: Cream well half a cup butter, add a cup and a half of sugar, half a cup cold water, two cups flour sifted twice with two teaspoonfuls baking powder, a teaspoonful lemon extract, and the stiffly beaten whites of six eggs. Bake in small shapes, frost, with boiled frosting, and ornament with tiny pink candies.
With Mary, life and all its constructive rites had won what the sacrificial has never been able to achieve the soul of the casual, of, so to say, second nature, which is last nature, and nature triumphant. While she was at breakfast Mis' Abby Winslow came in. "Mercy," Mis' Winslow said, "is it breakfast early? I've been up hours, frosting the cakes." "What cakes?" Mary asked idly.
But, well and truly baked, frosted a glistening white, then latticed and fringed with more frosting, dribbled on delicately from the point of a tube, they were surely good to look at. If the bride's cake were white all through, the heart-pans were usually filled with gold-cake batter thus white and yolk of eggs had equal honor.
He broke off with a laugh. Slowly she asked, "And would you have to eat the cake if you took the first bite?" His voice was harsh. "To the last crumb." "Then I would not bite." "But the frosting, Signorina, the pretty pink and white frosting!"
Bill Yohe, by way of a joke, put some frosting down the back of Cy Hurd, and, by way of delicate attention to Ella, alternately shoved her out of the seat and pulled her back again, while Joe hurled a chicken-leg at Cad Hines as she stood in the entry-way.
Pies, full-grown, did not go begging and were seldom cut in less than quarters. Frosted cake which the lads denominated "white-washed," was commonly saved over for the supper baskets. It kept moist, whereas without the frosting a long summer day might make it hard. After the supper elderly men drove home unless they had daughters among the dancers without other chaperons.
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