Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• ½ lb. of butter
• yolks of 12 eggs
• ½ lb. of white sugar
• same of ground almonds
• ½ lb. of chocolate
• 2 tablespoonfuls of cinnamon
• ½ teaspoonful of pounded cloves

Method

1. 1

   Melt the butter and stir it until it froths, beat the yolks of the eggs and stir into the butter; add the sugar and pounded almonds, grated chocolate, cinnamon and pounded cloves, beat well for fifteen minutes; then beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, and add these to the above mixture; butter the mould, and bake the above in a moderate oven for an hour and a quarter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 93. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake—Ingredients—¥% a lb. of butter, yolks of 12 eggs, % lb. of white sugar, same of ground almonds, % Ib. of chocolate, 2 tablespoonfuls of cinnamon, % teaspoonful of pounded © cloves. Melt the butter and stir it until it froths, beat the yolks of the eggs and stir into the butter ; add the sugar and pounded almonds, grated chocolate, cinnamon and pounded cloves, __ beat well for fifteen minutes; then beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, and add these to the above mixture; butter the mould, and bake the above in a moderate oven for an hour and a quarter. 559. Chocolate Cake (2). Beat for ten minutes the yolks of three eggs, stir them into the butter, add two ounces of sugar, two ounces of Jordan almonds, blanched and pounded, two ounces of powdered BREAD AND CAKES, 167. chocolate, half a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and the same of ‘cloves, pounded. Stir well for a quarter of an hour, then add the whites of the eggs, beaten to a froth; butter a mould and bake in a moderate oven for an hour. 560. Ratafias—Ingredients—8 oz. of sweet almonds, 4 of bitter, 10 oz. of white sugar, 4 eggs. Blanch and skin the almonds, and pound them in a marble mortar with the white of an egg ; add gradually the sugar, and the whites of three eggs, having previously well whisked them. Take a large sheet of cartridge paper and drop the mixture through a biscuit syringe upon it and bake for about twelve minutes. The oven should be rather quick, and the cakes should not be larger than a 25c. piece. 561. Macaroons-— Ingredients—4 oz. of almonds, 4 spoonfuls of orange flower water, 1 lb. of white sugar

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