Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups brown sugar
• half a cup of butter
• the beaten yolks of four eggs
• half a cup of milk
• a scant teaspoon of soda
• two cups of flour
• half a cake of melted chocolate
• the beaten white of four eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients and bake.

2. 2

   Use a soft fudge for filling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Twin-city housewife (1920) by N.C.) International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons. Whatsoever Circle (Winston-Salem, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake Two cups yellow sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, with one-half teaspoon soda, one cup grated Baker’s chocolate, five eggs (leaving out the whites of two), three cups flour. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add milk, eggs, chocolate, and lastly the flour. Bake in layers. Make a soft frosting of the whites of two eggs and two cups granulated sugar. Boil the sugar with water until it can be rolled into a ball, then pour over the well-beaten whites. Flavor and beat until cool—Mrs. Brandenburg. Chocolate Cake One cup grated chocolate, one cup sugar, one-half cup milk, yolk of one egg. Boil all together until it thickens. While this mixture is cooling make a cake of one cup of sugar, one-half cup butter, one- half cup milk, two and one-half cups flour (measure after it is sifted), two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon of vanilla, four eggs beaten separately. Beat this batter very light and add the chocolate mixture if perfectly cold. Bake in four layers, and put together with boiled icing —Mrs. Edgar Vaughn. Chocolate Cake Two cups brown sugar sifted and creamed with half a cup of butter. Mix in the beaten yolks of four eggs, and half a cup of milk in which a scant teaspoon of soda has been dissolved. Stir in two cups of flour, half a cake of melted chocolate, and the beaten white of four eggs

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