Cherry Cake—Bavarian

Ingredients

• an egg
• two tablespoons of sweet grated chocolate
• one of fine bread crumbs
• one of powdered sugar
• another egg
• three more eggs
• half a pound of fine juicy black cherries

Method

1. 1

   Break an egg into a bowl; add two tablespoons of sweet grated chocolate, one of fine bread crumbs and one of powdered sugar and beat well; add another egg, more sugar and more crumbs; then separate three more eggs and beat in the yolks alternately with sugar and crumbs, one by one, until all are used; mix in lightly half a pound of fine juicy black cherries and fold in the egg-whites, beaten stiff.

2. 2

   Butter a wide, shallow cake tin thoroughly, sift dried bread crumbs over it and pour in the mixture.

3. 3

   Bake about three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven and serve it cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Pan-Pacific cook book (1915) by L. L. McLaren, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HERRY CAKE— BAVARIAN Break an egg into a bowl ; add two tablespoons of sweet grated chocolate, one of fine bread crumbs and one of powdered sugar and beat well ; add another egg, more sugar and more crumbs ; then separate three more eggs and beat in the yolks alternately with sugar and crumbs, one by one, until all are used ; mix in lightly half a pound of fine juicy black cherries

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