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Chess Cakes
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 3
If prepared cocoanut is used, take one and a half coffeecupfuls.
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 219. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
CHESS CARES. Peel and grate one cocoanut ; boil one pound of sugar fifteen minutes in two-thirds of a pint of water ; stir in the grated cocoanut and boil fif- teen minutes longer. W^hile warm, stir in a quarter of a pound of butter ; add the yolks of seven eggs well beaten
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