Black Chocolate Cakes

Ingredients

• one cake Baker’s chocolate
• the yolks of three eggs
• two cups brown sugar
• one cup sweet milk
• one cup butter
• two cups sugar
• four cups sifted flour
• one tablespoonful vanilla
• one teaspoonful soda

Method

1. 1

   Cook chocolate with yolks and sugar until thick, then mix with the batter and bake in layers.

2. 2

   For icing, beat egg whites and mix with boiled sugar and lemon juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Popular cook book (1899) by Seeman Printery, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups powdered sugar, two cups flour, one cup tice flour, two teaspoons baking powder. Flavor with rose and almond. Mrs. ALBERT KRAMER. CAROLINE’S JUMBLES. Six eggs, one cup butter, two cups sugar, three pints flour; if not sufficient, put enough in to roll it out well; one teaspoonful baking powder; flavor with nutineg. After rolling out, before baking, sprinkle with sugar. Mrs. W. A. ERWIN. GINGER SNAPS. One cup molasses, one cup butter, one cup sugar, one tablespoontul ginger, dash of red pepper and two eggs. Put the molasses and butter in a tin pan and set on the fire; when it boils take off and add the sugar and ginger. When they are well mixed, add the eggs, which have been well beaten, then flour enough to roll. Put a small piece at a time on the board, and roll as thin as a Knife- blade. Cut and bake dark brown. Keep in a tin box. Mrs. Rost. W. WINSTON. SPONGE CAKE. One pound of finely pulverized loaf sugar, nine eggs, and twlve ounces dried and sifted flour; beat the whites and yolks separately nearly half an hour then beat the sugar with the eggs until it foams, flavor with extract lemon, stir in the flour lightly, pour in a buttered cake pan and bake an hour. Miss M. P. MAncuo. [ 89 ] OLD TIME STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. Bake shortcake, rich yeast powder biscuit dough about one inch thick split in half and butter heavily both sides while hot. The finest strawberries should be reserved for top decorations, the others cut in half and sugared heavily, remaining in sugar four or five hours. Now lay between crusts the cut berries and pour the juice. On the top may be spread whipped cream sweet- ened and fresh berries placed on top. MATTIE SOUTHGATE JONES. moa akhe A POUND: CAKE. One pound water, one pound milk, one pound flour, well sifted, one pound of lard well mixed in with clean hands; one pound soda, one pound Royal Baking Pow- der, one pound salt, one pound butter, one pound vanilla flavoring. Mix all well together with the clean hands, above mentioned and beat the mixture in a clean tub, Get together all the ovens and pans so they may be ready in time of need. If the soda and baking powder should make the substance rise too much, let the surplus be put in another oven and so on until the vessels are filled. Bake until done and there will likely be more cake than the neighbors can consume. JAMES SOUTHGATE. BLACK CAKE, Cream one pound butter, break one pound eggs in a pitcher near the fire to warm, one pound flour, one pound brown sugar, two poundsseeded raisins, one pound currants, half pound citron, one pound blanched almonds, cut fine; two wine glasses brandy, half ounce cloves one nutmeg, one gill of molasses; warm all these ingredients [ 90 ] before mixing and beat with the hand, first eggs and sugar then add. butter, flour, currants and raisins. Mrs. SAUNDERS. DELICIOUS CAKE. One-half cup sugar, two thirds cups butter, cream them together, add the whites of five eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, then add one-half corn starch dissolved in a little sweet milk, stir in not quite two-thirds cup sweet milk and two-and-a-half cups sifted flour, two teaspoon- fuls baking powder and one of vanilla. FILLING. One-half cup water, one and one-half cups white sugar; let it boil a few minutes until it drops thick and heavy, then pour on the whites of eggs, beaten very stiff and a spoonful of lemon. This cake to give perfect satisfaction should be four days old. Delicious cake. Mrs. BK. M. GRAHAM. CHOCOLATE CAEN O28). Four eggs, two cups brown sugar, one-half cup butter, two cups flour, one teaspoonful soda sifted with flour, one-half cake Baker’s chocolate grated and melted, one- half cup sweet milk. Use coffee cup for measuring. Bake in layers (four) and put together with boiled icing flavored with vanilla and cover cake with same. MRs.+ C. 2C i DAYLOR, BUACK CHOCOUA TH "CAKES amu: Take one cake Baker’s chocolate and grate it, the yolks of three eggs, two cups brown sugar, one cup sweet [ 91 | milk; cook until it thickens, after it cools, add the following batter: one cup butter, two cups brown sugar, four eggs, four cups sifted flour, one cup sweet milk, one tablespoonful vanilla

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