CHOCOLATE ICING

Make a vanilla icing, and add one tablespoonful of cold water to it. Scrape fine one ounce of  Chocolate, and put it in a small iron or granite-ware saucepan, with two tablespoonfuls of confectioners' sugar and one tablespoonful of hot water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy, then add another tablespoonful of hot water. Stir the dissolved chocolate into the vanilla icing.