Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Three-fourths cake Baker’s chocolate
• yolks three eggs
• one and a half cups brown sugar
• one cup milk
• four cups flour
• one teaspoonful of soda
• four eggs
• one of butter
• one of milk
• flavor with vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cook chocolate, yolks, and sugar to a cream in a double boiler.

2. 2

   When cold, add to the batter made with eggs, sugar, butter, milk, and flour.

3. 3

   Put together with boiled icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Elm City cook book (1896) by N.C.) Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church (New Bern, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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