Peppermint Cup
Ingredients
- ½ oz gum arabic
- ½ cup water
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg whites
- 1 pint boiling cream
- few drops of essence of peppermint
- pinch baking soda
- little powdered cinnamon
Instructions
- Soak half an ounce of pulverized gum arabic in half a cupful of cold water for 30 minutes. Dissolve it over hot water.
- Add one cupful of powdered sugar and cook until it will spin a thread.
- Pour this upon the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, and when well blended add gradually a pint of boiling cream, a few drops of essence of peppermint and a tiny pinch of baking soda.
- Serve while it foams, sprinkled with a little powdered cinnamon.
