Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• six tablespoons of butter
• one cup of sugar
• two ounces of melted chocolate
• two eggs well beaten
• two thirds of a cup of milk
• one and one half cups of flour
• three teaspoons of baking powder
• one fourth teaspoon of salt
• one half teaspoon of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add melted chocolate and beaten eggs.

2. 2

   Alternate adding milk and sifted flour with baking powder and salt.

3. 3

   Add vanilla.

4. 4

   Bake in a moderate oven for about 35 minutes.

5. 5

   Frost with chocolate frosting.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Principles of cooking (1914) by Emma Conley, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake. — Cream six tablespoons of butter, add one cup of sugar and mix thoroughly, add two ounces of melted chocolate and two eggs well beaten. Add, alter- nately, two thirds of a cup of milk and one and one half cups of flour, three teaspoons of baking powder, and one fourth teaspoon of salt sifted together. Add one half teaspoon of vanilla

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