Cooked Frosting, page 189

Put in a pan or vessel that you can set on the stove, cup of granulated sugar, 1/4 cup of milk, butter size of walnut. Cook until it will make hard wax when tried in water. Take off the stove and stir until it is almost hard, then spread on cake. Flavor with vanilla, when cool, if you care for it.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.

Lemon Crackers, page 22

Three cups sugar, 1 cup lard or butter, 1 pint sweet milk, 3 eggs, 1 table-spoonful lemon essence, 1 oz. baking amonia {sic}.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.