Definition of Icing sugar

1. Noun. Finely powdered sugar used to make icing.

Generic synonyms: Powdered Sugar

Definition of Icing sugar

1. Noun. (British Canada NZ) powdered sugar ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Icing Sugar

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icicle
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icing
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icing liver
icing sugar (current term)
icing the puck
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Literary usage of Icing sugar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Housekeeping: A Careful Compilation of Tried and Approved Recipes by Estelle Woods Wilcox, Bertha Clow (1883)
"... it may also be used as an icing for any thing, and can be piped, ornamented, or decorated with icing sugar in the same manner as a bride's cake. ..."

2. The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1922)
"2 Pounds of the Finest White icing sugar. 2 Ounces of Gum Arabic. The Whites of 2 Egge. 1 Gill of Any Essence Desired. These bonbons are prepared by soaking ..."

3. The Artizans' Guide and Everybody's Assistant: Containing Over Three by Richard Moore (1873)
"Ingredients ; I oz. of gum dragon soaked in 2 oz. of orange flower water, Ij Ib. of fine icing sugar, and j oz of essence of colt's foot. ..."

4. Paul Richards' Book of Breads, Cakes, Pastries, Ices and Sweetmeats by Paul Richards (1907)
"Take any quantity of icing sugar (XXXX powdered sugar)' and mix with hot water into a thin in a china bowl and beat with one or two small spatulas, ..."

5. The Household Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Daily Wants by Alexander V. Hamilton (1873)
"This cake is well worth icing, which is done thus :—Procure a pound and a half of confectioner's icing sugar—or, if not procurable, pound, and sift very ..."

6. The Dixie Cook-book by Estelle Woods Wilcox (1883)
"... it may also be used as an icing for any thing, and can be piped, ornamented, or decorated with icing sugar in the same manner as a bride's cake. ..."

7. The Universal Assistant, and Complete Mechanic by Richard Moore (1882)
"Ingredients : 1 oz. of gum dragon soaked in 2 oz. of orange flower water, 1J Ib. of fine icing sugar, aud 4 oz. of essence of colt's foot. ..."

8. The Successful Housekeeper: A Manual of Universal Application, Especially by Milon W. Ellsworth, Tinnie Ellsworth (1882)
"To make the sugar icing, put two pounds of icing sugar into a bowl and work ... Be careful to obtain- icing sugar. If a drop of liquid blue is added it will ..."

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