Baked Alaska

Instructions

1. 1

   Make meringue of eggs and sugar as in Meringue I

2. 2

   Cover a board with white paper, lay on sponge cake

3. 3

   Turn ice cream on cake (which should extend one-half inch beyond cream)

4. 4

   Cover with meringue and spread smoothly

5. 5

   Place on oven grate and brown quickly in hot oven

6. 6

   The board, paper, cake, and meringue are poor conductors of heat, and prevent the cream from melting

7. 7

   Slip from paper on ice cream platter