Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• One tablespoon butter
• one cup sugar
• two eggs
• one-quarter cake of chocolate
• one cup of milk
• one and one-quarter cup of flour
• two teaspoons soda
• one teaspoon cream tartar
• one teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Mix butter and sugar (not to a cream), add yolks of eggs, melted chocolate, milk, beaten whites of eggs with soda, flour mixed with cream tartar, then vanilla.

2. 2

   Bake fifteen minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kirmess cook book (1907), page 178. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CAKE. Mrs, Charles E. Brownne, One tablespoon butter, one cup sugar, two eggs, one- quarter cake of chocolate, one cup of milk, one and one-quarter cup of flour, two teaspoons soda, one tea- DESSERTS. 415 spoon cream tartar, one teaspoon vanilla, one cup of milk. Mix butter and sugar (not to a cream), add yolks of eggs, chocolate melted, milk, whites of eggs beaten stiff with soda, flour mixed with cream tartar, then vanilla. Bake fifteen minutes. FILLING. One cup of confectioner's sugar, two tablespoons of cold water, one-eighth cake of chocolate, (Baker's), melted, one tablespoon of hot water, one teaspoon of vanilla. CHOCOLATE CAKE. Mrs. T. K. Egbert, New York. One cup of sugar, three-quarters of a cup of butter, half a cup of milk, cup and a half of flour, three eggs, quarter of a teaspoonful of baking soda, (half teaspoon- ful cream tartar), or prepared flour answers as a sub- stitute to both. One cup of grated chocolate, one egg, half a cup of milk, sugar to the taste. Put it on the fire and let it boil until it thickens. Flavor with va- nilla. Cream Filling. One pint of milk, one egg, one and one-half tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, sugar to taste, flavor with vanilla. Let it boil until it thickens. CHOCOLATE CAKE. Mis8 Gladys Ltnn. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, three eggs beat separate, one-half cup milk, one and a half teaspoon baking powder, add tiie beaten whites of the eggs last. Filling. One-half pint milk, one tablespoon butter, one-half cup sugar, one-quarter cup chocolate, one ta- blespoon cornstarch, yolks of two eggs. Boil the milk 416 KIRMESS COOK BOOK. sugar, chocolate and cornstarch for five minutes then take from fire, and add the butter and eggs. DEVIL CAKE. Excellent, Rye, N. Y. One-half cupful of butter, one and one-half cupful sugar, (powdered), four eggs, one cupful milk, one and one-half cupfuls flour, one-fourth pound Baker^s chocolate (melted in dry bowl), one teaspoon cream tartar

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