Chocolate Cake
From Delta Gamma cook book, 1922
Serves 2
Frosting: Boil 6 tablespoons sugar and 6 tablespoons cream with 1.5 squares chocolate for seven minutes. Stir until smooth and pour over cake.
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Chocolate Cake 1 tablespoon butter or Crisco 1 cup sugar 2 eggs (save 1 white for frosting) 1 square chocolate % cup milk 1 cup flour 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder Bake in long pan. JuUa B. Gould (Lambda). Chocolate Cake No. 1 2 eggs vanilla cream 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder }/2 teaspoon salt 2 squares chocolate )4: cup hot water Break eggs into measuring cup, fill the cup with cream. Add other ingredients, and lastly, the chocolate, dissolved in hot water. This is a very good plain cake without the chocolate. Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu). Chocolate Cake No. 2 ^ cup butter 11^ cups sugar 2 cups flour 1 cup sweet milk 2 teaspoons baking powder whites of 4 eggs (in chocolate cake 2 whole eggs may be used) 3^ cake chocolate, melted Cream butter and sugar, add milk, mix flour and baking powder before adding to mixture. Beat whites, then add to mixture. Add chocolate last. This makes good white cake if chocolate is omitted. Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu). Chocolate Cake 1 cup sugar 1 square chocolate 1 egg 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon soda
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