Ah, sea foam icing! It went on nice, moist banana cake (made with well-ripened bananas). Good thing it was so delicious, because I got awfully tired of beating it in the double boiler when I was a kid--that and stirring the chocolate pudding FOREVER were probably my two least favorite cooking things, but standing over a hot stove beating/stirring for what felt like all day was still worth it. Never had 7-minute (or sea foam) frosting go hard or crusty on me. 'Course, in a household with 2-3 adults and 3-4 kids (grandmother and a cousin lived with us summers), how long could it have lasted? Now that Mom's gone and my daughter's an 8-hour bus trip away, no longer have to make birthday cakes, so have made exactly two cakes in six years.

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