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Jenny's Buttercream (Icing)

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Serves
UNKNOWN
Course
Mains

Read this one with the card open. Something on it is illegible, missing or ambiguous. It is transcribed exactly as written — nothing has been guessed or filled in — and every uncertainty is marked below.

Summary

Handwritten buttercream icing recipe attributed to "Jenny," listing ingredients only — no mixing method is given. Shares a heavily stained page with an unrelated soup recipe (see combo note).

Key contents

  • Title (as written): "Icing: Jenny's Buttercream."
  • Ingredients:
  • 1 lb butter
  • 14 cups powdered sugar (written as "14 lbs," with "lbs" struck through and "cups" written above it)
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla
  • 1 cup half-and-half cream
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 to 2 Tbsp each of cream of tartar and corn starch
  • Method: none given — the card lists ingredients only, with no mixing/creaming instructions.
  • Artifact notes: This recipe occupies the top portion of a single heavily water/coffee-stained sheet of lined paper; a second, unrelated recipe ("Soup," headed in red ink) occupies the lower portion of the same page. Treated as a combo — two distinct recipes on one page, filed as two separate documents. See the companion brief chicken-taco-soup.md for the other recipe from this same scan.

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