Recipe - Flowerpots (Baked Alaska)

1 Small Yellow Cake layer
1 pt Ice Cream or Sherbet
8 Clay Flower Pots
8 Large Soda Straws
1 Meringue
3 Egg Whites
6 tablespoon Sugar
One half teaspoon Vanilla

+MERINGUE ~
NOTE: Flower pots should be 2 One half in. high by 3 in. Diameter. Sterilize
flower pots by boiling. Dry pots. Place a piece of plain yellow cake in the
bottom of each pot to cover the hole in the bottom. Add ice cream or
sherbet to pots until threequarters full. In the middle of each pot, force
a large ice cream soda straw and cut off even with top of the pot. Pile
meringue around the inside of the pot, leaving s over the soda straw open.
Bake at 400 degrees until the meringue turn brown, (about 5 minutes).
Insert fresh flowers in the soda straw. For a holiday look, use holly and
red roses or carnations. For the Meringue: Beat the egg whites until foamy
before slowly adding the sugar, beat well after each addition. Beat until
shiny and stiff, but not dry. Fold in vanilla. Each flowerpot requires
about a third of a cup of meringue Each serving, (vanilla ice cream was
used for analysis) contains 262 calories, 5 grams protein, 9 grams fat, 42
grams carbohydrate, 158 mg sodium and 38 mg cholesterol. This recipe used
to be prepared at the Hotel Driskill in Austin, Tx, b Ms. Corbitt.
According to Texas Highways Magazine, Dec 90, it is now served by the
hotel only at Banquets. Ms. Corbitt passed away in 1978 but her cookbook,
Helen Corbitt's Cookbook is still enjoyed.

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