Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• One and a half cupfuls of sugar
• half a cupful of butter
• half a cupful of milk
• one and three-fourths cupfuls of flour
• a quarter of a pound of Baker's chocolate
• three eggs
• one teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• half a teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Scrape the chocolate fine, and add five tablespoonfuls of sugar to it.

2. 2

   Beat the butter to a cream.

3. 3

   Gradually add the sugar, beating all the while.

4. 4

   Add three tablespoonfuls of boiling water to the chocolate and sugar.

5. 5

   Stir over the fire until smooth and glossy; then stir into the beaten sugar and butter.

6. 6

   Add the eggs well beaten, then the milk and the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been thoroughly mixed.

7. 7

   Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 161. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake. One and a half cupfuls of sugar, half a cupful of butter, half a cupful of milk, one and three-fourths cupfuls of flour, a quarter of a pound of Baker's chocolate, three eggs, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda

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