Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• y2 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sour milk
• 1 tsp. soda
• 2 rounded tblsp. cocoa
• 2]/2 cups sifted flour
• pinch salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and shortening, add eggs and beat well.

2. 2

   Mix milk and soda, add to mixture.

3. 3

   Stir in cocoa dissolved in hot water, then flour and salt.

4. 4

   Flavor and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicacies (1929) by Thursday Club (San Diego, Calif.), page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake 1 egg yolk y2 cup granulated sugar, y2 cup of water, (cold), y2 cup of Baker's cocoa. Boil above ingredients in small pan over teakettle, until it thickens, then set aside to cool. When cool add 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract. Then cream together : 1 cup of sugar, y2 cup of butter and Crisco mixed, or all butter, y2 cup of sour milk with y2 teaspoon of soda (mixed together), 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder added to flour, add cool chocolate mixture, 2 eggs (well beaten), 2 cups of flour. Frost with following mocha filling : 2 cups of pulverized sugar, lump of butter size of walnut, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract. Add enough boiling coffee to make right consistency for spreading. Add chopped nuts if desired. —Mrs. Wm. Phillips. Sour Cream Cakes 2 cups flour J/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoonsful baking 2 eggs powder 1 cup sour cream 1 teaspoon vanilla V2 teaspoon soda Method : Sift together, flour, sugar, salt and baking pow- der, mix sour cream and soda together and add beaten eggs and vanilla. Bake in muffin tins. — Mrs. Matthew W . Donohue. -125— Sour Cream and Milk Recipes Thursday Club Delicacies Sour Milk Chocolate Cake 1 cup sugar 3 teaspoons ful chocolate 1 tablespoonful of shortening 1 teaspoonful salt 1 cup sour milk ll/2 cups flour 1 teaspoonful soda Mix in order given and pour into low flat pan and bake slowly. Frost with one cup sugar, 1 egg white, 3 tablespoons- ful water. Cook in double boiler seven minutes, beating with dover egg beater continually. — Mrs. Byron Gilchrist. Chocolate Cake 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, y2 cup shortening, 2 eggs, I cup sour milk, 1 tsp. soda, 2 rounded tblsp. cocoa or 3 tblsp. Ghirardelli's chocolate, 2]/2 cups sifted flour, pinch salt, 1 tsp. vanilla

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