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Black Cake (Famous)

From The Cook County cook book, 1912

Serves 2

Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 371. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BLACK CAKE (Famous) — 1 cup white sugar, }i cup butter, 1 egg, K cup sour milk, 1 heaping teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon va- 542 CAKE nilla, 1 large cup flour. Dissolve two squares of chocolate in J/2 a cup boiling water

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