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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Frosting has butter or shortening in it, along with the sugar. While icing is just sugar and water. Frosting holds shapes etc and is soft to the touch. Icing dries smooth and hardens.
Why do both have a low-temperature 'root', then? Because they're not liquidy? Because they may melt if handled wrongly?
[Edit: 7+3=8+2. I had the "6+4" same post # math earlier. It's like my post #s have a conversation of their own, without me.]
I googled, and my opinion is that the internet has lost consensus. Cook's Illustrated has much more frosting than icing, but its icing does have dairy in it.
Don't know about the origins of the term, Nilly.
I don't know either, Nilly.
No consensus on the internet? say it isn't so! Does the icing have dairy or have shortening/butter?
Why do both have a low-temperature 'root', then? Because they're not liquidy? Because they may melt if handled wrongly?
My guess would be that, if they're not colored, they both look kind of like ice or frost, like on gingerbread houses.
Also randomly, I learned how to take screenshots on a mac and it's unaccountably easy.
the internet has lost consensus
The internet needs a Light-bulb thread?
Thanks anyway, ita and Kat. [Edit: and Hil]
Oh, and Kat! In a book I read last night, somebody was described as wearing a chapeau. The first time I ever encountered that word and looked it up was, surprisingly enough, in a post from you. So I thought of you last night.
I would say that frosting has some form of solid or near-solid fat -- either butter, shortening, or whipped cream -- while icing has either water or milk, or I suppose it could be made with cream, though I've never seen that.
The CI icings:
Chocolate Butter Icing
9 ounces bittersweet chocolate , or semisweet
8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick)
1/3 cup light corn syrup
Buttermilk Icing
2 tablespoons cream cheese , softened
2 tablespoons buttermilk
1 cup confectioners' sugar (4 ounces)
Last minute bookreport for Little Women. (Has sound.)
My favorite part is "They're 100% woman at 50% the size."
Polgara, did you friend do this one too? I LOVES IT!
Hey, Nilly started Chapeau so ^.
And yeah, good word, huh? I can't claim it as mine, nor can I claim the game as mine. I blame ita's best friend.
^