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Peppermint Cup

Ingredients

• 1/2 ounce of pulverized gum arabic
• 1 cupful of powdered sugar
• whites of 2 eggs
• 1 pint of boiling cream
• few drops of essence of peppermint
• tiny pinch of baking soda
• powdered cinnamon

Instructions

Soak the gum arabic in half a cupful of cold water for 30 minutes. Dissolve it over hot water.

Add the sugar and cook until it will spin a thread.

Pour this upon the stiffly beaten whites, and when well blended add gradually the cream, essence of peppermint and baking soda.

Serve while it foams, sprinkled with a little powdered cinnamon.

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Source

The Suffrage Cook Book (1915).

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