After Dinner Mints - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 unbeaten egg white
1 Tbsp. cream
1 tsp. vanilla
3 drops oil flavoring
food coloring
1 box powdered sugar
1 tsp. (heaping) soft butter or shortening

Preparation

Combine egg white, cream, vanilla, oil flavoring and coloring. Stir well.
Add sugar, all at once, mixing thoroughly.
Add more cream, if needed.
Add butter and more sugar if necessary to make mixture the consistency needed to roll into firm small balls. Arrange balls on waxed paper.
Press each ball with tines of fork dipped into additional powdered sugar.
Let stand overnight to form crust.
Put mints into tins with waxed paper between each layer. Mints may be frozen and kept for several months.