Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon Royal baking powder
• vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake in layers.

2. 2

   For icing, use chocolate, sugar, milk, and butter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Raleigh cook book (1907) by N.C.). Ladies' Church Improvement Society First Baptist Church (Raleigh, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake.—Chocolate mixture: 1 cup grated choco- late; 1 cup sugar; % cup sweet milk; 1 egg; 2 teaspoons vanilla. Cake batter: 1 cup sugar; % cup butter; % cup sweet milk; 3 cups flour; 38 eggs beaten separately; 14% heaping teaspoons baking powder. Cook chocolate, milk, sugar and egg until thick; add when cold 2 teaspoons of vanilla, and put into the cake batter. Make the batter in the usual way. Bake in layers. Filling for Chocolate Cake.—2 cups sugar; % cup water; 3 eggs, whites only; % pound marshmallows. Let the sugar and water boil till it will spin a long thread. Beat the whites of the 3 eggs; to this add marshmallows, then pour the boiled sugar over eggs and marshmallows, beat till cold and put between cake. Or plain boiled icing may be used. CAKES. 53 Chocolate Cake.—6 eggs; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 3 cups flour; 1 cup milk; 1 teaspoon Royal baking powder

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