[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]Frosting Icing

[johnna holloway]

You can check the article that I did
for the earliest icing or frosting recipes...
http://www.florilegium.org/
It's under sweet or decorated foods...
Sugar-Icing-art - 11/10/01
"Sugar Icing" by Johnnae llyn Lewis. Some notes
on sugar icing in late period and some post period.
Johnna Holloway
lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
Aside: is there a significant difference between frosting and icing,
> or is it just a regional word usage variation like stuffing vs.
> dressing (me, i put stuffing in a turkey and dressing on a salad) or
> soda vs. pop? It seems to me that i hear them used interchangeably -
> although as with other words, perhaps there is a specific usage in a
> specialized baking/pastry community...