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1890

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Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Chocolate Boucliees. — Beat the yolks of six eggs in a basin with jib. of caster sugar, then add the well-whipped whites,' and sift in jib. of flour. When these are well mixed, fill a paper funnel with the paste, and press it out in rounds 1 jin. in diameter on to some sheets of paper ; sift a little caster sugar over these, and bake them. When they are done, trim the rounds with a cutter, spread the flat surface of one round with apricot jam, put another round on that, and so on until all the rounds are used, and then glaze them with some Chocolate icing. Chocolate Cake. — (1) Cream 1 teacupful of butter, and beat in gradually 1 j breakfast-cupfuls of caster sugar. Dissolve jib. of scraped Chocolate and 5 table-spoonfuls of moist sugar in 1 teacupful of boiling water, and stir over the fire until smooth ; then stir in the sugar and butter. Beat well three eggs. Mix with lib. of flour, 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and 5 tea- spoonful of bicarbonate of soda. Mix all together with 1 tea- cupful of milk. Bake for twenty minutes, on buttered sheets, in a moderate oven. This cake may be iced. (2) Cream 1 breakfast-cupful of butter, add gradually 2 breakfast-cupfuls of sugar, the yolks of five and .the whites of three eggs, 1 breakfast-cupful of milk, 3 breakfast-cupfuls of flour in which 1 j teaspoonfuls of baking-powder (or lj tea- spoonfuls of cream of tartar and j teaspoonful of bicarbonate of sodaChocolate Cake) have been mixed ; work well. Cover two baking- sheets with this, and bake in a moderate oven for half-an-hour. Put in a saucepan 6 table- spoonfuls each of grated Chocolate and sugar with 2 table-spoonfuls of hot water, and stir over the fire until quite smooth ; then pour in 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract. Beat the whites of two eggs to a froth, and mix with the sugar and Chocolate. When the cakes are done, ice them over with this. (3) Beat jib. of butter and jib. of caster sugar well together: dissolve jib. of grated Chocolate in 1 breakfast-cupful of milk, and add this to the sugar and butter, with the yolks of four eggs. Mix jib. of flour, 2oz. of ground rice, and 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder together, and sift over the Chocolate mixture ; then stir in lightly the whites of four eggs beaten to a froth. Pour this into a cake-tin, and bake for one hour in a moderate oven. (4) Put 4oz. of butter into a basin, warm it, and mix in 6oz. of sifted crushed loaf sugar. When these are well in- corporated, add 2 breakfast-cupfuls of milk, a little vanilla for flavouring, and 2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder mixed up with 1 jib. of flour ; then beat in 2oz. of liquid or warmed Chocolate. Turn the mixture into buttered tins, and bake in a moderate oven. Take the cakes out when done, cover them with sugar-icing, and they are ready for use. (5) Blanch and peel jib. of almonds, put them into a mortar, Chocolate Icing for Cakes