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Chocolate Cake

Name: Chocolate Cake
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: two-thirds pint sugar; a gill of butter; three eggs; the yolk of one; a heaping pint flour; one teaspoon baking powder; a gill of milk; a tablespoon and a half grated chocolate; a half pint pulverized sugar; two teaspoons of vanilla sugar

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 10

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake, — Cream two-thirds pint sugar and a gill of but- ter, stir in the well whipped whites of three eggs and the yolk of one ; when light add a heaping pint flour and one teaspoon baking powder sifted together ; now add a gill of milk and bake in jelly pans. For filling rub a tablespoon and a half grated chocolate with a half pint pulverized sugar, and two teaspoons of vanilla sugar

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