Make a vanilla icing, and add one tablespoonful of cold water to it.
Scrape fine one ounce of Walter Baker & Co.'s Premium No. 1 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.