Delta Gamma cook book

Marshmallow Icing 2 cups sugar 1 cup water Cook until it threads. Pour over the well beaten whites of two eggs. Add one-half pound marshmallows and beat well. Spread between and over layers. Louise Riggs (Theta). Pecan Frosting 1 cup cream, sour or sweet 1 cup pecans, cut up 1 cup sugar Boil together until thick. Put whole pecans over top layer, aside from those chopped up and boiled with the mixture. Gladys Huffman (Pi). Snow Balls Cut pieces of pound cake about two inches square. Dip into stiffly beaten white of egg and dip in cocoanut. Alta Stevenson (Eta). Frosting whites of 2 eggs Beat a little, add pinch of salt and pinch of cream of tartar. Beat stiff. add 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cold water Put in a double boiler and beat for eight minutes as it cooks, or until the mixture can be raised to a point from a spoon. This never fails. Kathleen Frazee Marcy (Lambda Nu). Caramel Frosting 13^ cups light brown sugar 1 tablespoon butter ]/2 cup cream or rich milk Boil slowly until it forms a soft ball in water. Take from the fire and add vanilla to taste. Beat until ready to spread. Lillian Smith Burwell (Lambda Nu). Almond Pudding Line dessert cups with strips of sponge cake. Fill with following custard : 2 eggs 1 pint milk Y2 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch When custard is partly cool, flavor and add two-thirds cup chopped blanched almonds. Serve very cold. Helen Berkman Judd (Lambda). African Cream Into yolks of two eggs well beaten stir four tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons flour and flavor with vanilla. Pour this into one pint of boiling milk and stir until quite thick. Remove top and inside of a sponge cake and fill vacancy with the cream. Replace top and cover with chocolate icing. Leulah J. Hawley (Lambda Nu). Ambrosia Put layer of oranges sliced thin in dish, cover with powdered sugar and grated cocoanut, alternating layers until dish is full, leaving a cocoanut layer for top. Serve cold. Gayle Marshall (Theta). Angel's Dessert 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup nuts 2 eggs, well beaten 1 cup dates 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 teaspoons flour Stir sugar, flour and baking powder together and add the other ingredients. Bake in a slow oven twenty minutes. Serve with cream. Frances Skinner Blitz (Lambda). Delmonico Apple Stew and sweeten to taste one quart peaches, one quart apples. Chop together one and one-half pounds blanched almonds, twenty cents worth macaroons. Put fruit in well buttered pan, add small lumps butter, then add nuts and macaroons, alternating layers until dish is fuU. Bake half hour, or until brown. Harriet Merrill Chiffton (Lambda). Apricot Float Squeeze stewed apricots through sieve. To one cup apricots add whites of two or three eggs beaten light with a little sugar. Put in slightly buttered pan and brown lightly. Mabel M. Reese (Psi), Apples in Butter Sauce 4 large sweet apples water 2 tablespoons butter }/i teaspoon vanilla 2 tablespoons flour 3^ teaspoon cinnamon Melt butter and blend with flour, add water slowly until the consistency of white sauce. When smooth put in the apples, pared and cut into sixteenths. Then add enough water to cover apples. Cook until apples are tender and flavor with vanilla and cinnamon. If possible use "Weaver Sweet Apples." Ella Ward Carson (Epsilon).