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Realizing the housewife has many favorite frostingsfor her cakes we will concentrate on decorating icings. No matter how you practice decorating and how much equipment you have, your icing must be at the rightconsistency or all your decorating efforts will be invain. When working with a decorating icing, it is oftennecessary to vary the consistency of your particularicing. If you are practicing a simple border, your icing should be of a medium consistency. For many of thedifferent types of flowers, a stiffer icing is required inorder to make the petal stand up and have a morelifelike effect. All of our decorating formulas are workedout to give you a medium stiff consistency and theymay be used for either flowers or borders. Where youare told to thin down the icing slightly, do so by adding a few drops of water. Now the question arises, wherewould a thinned down icing be used? In string workand tube writing the icing must be of a thinner con-sistency in order to draw out properly. If a heavy, stiff |
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