Chocolate Cake
From The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book, 1901
Serves 8
Presented as published in 1901. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book (1901) by Johnson, Alice A.,, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
one-half cup sweet milk, one -half cup corn starch, one cup flour, whites of six eggs, half teaspoonful vanilla, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in layers. Icing: Whites of two eggs, twenty teaspoonfuls sifted sugar, beaten very light, half teaspoonful vanilla. Spread between layers on the outside. Chocolate Cake. — One-fourth cake of chocolate, one- fourth cup sweet milk, one- half cup sugar ; cook this together, and when hot add the beaten 3'olks of two eggs . Flavor with vanilla, and set aside to cool. Take one ^%%, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one- half cup sweet milk, one and a half cups flour, one-half teaspoonful soda
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