Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• four ounces of butter
• three well-beaten yolks of eggs
• a quarter of a pound of chocolate
• one and a half ounce of flour
• four ounces of castor or sifted sugar
• two ounces of pounded almonds
• half a teaspoonful of sal volatile
• the three whites of the eggs

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream; add the yolks of eggs.

2. 2

   Heat the chocolate in the oven till soft, beat it into the eggs and butter.

3. 3

   Add flour, sugar, almonds, and sal volatile.

4. 4

   Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth and add.

5. 5

   Bake in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The child's cookery book (1900) by Louisa S. Tate, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake Beat four ounces of butter to a cream ; add to this three well-beaten yolks of eggs ; scrape finely a quarter of a pound of choco- late, and heat it in the oven till it is soft; beat it into the eggs and butter ; add one and a half ounce of flour, four ounces of castor or sifted sugar, two ounces of pounded almonds, and half a teaspoonful of sal volatile ; beat up the three whites of the eggs

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