Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• Y2 cup hot water
• % pound butter
• 2 cups pastry flour
• 2 eggs
• Y2 cup buttermilk
• 1 square bitter chocolate
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Sift sugar, cream with butter.

2. 2

   Beat eggs well and add to creamed sugar and butter.

3. 3

   Dissolve chocolate in hot water and add.

4. 4

   Add soda to buttermilk, and baking powder to flour, sifting the flour three times.

5. 5

   This will keep moist for days.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Quaker recipes (1954) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CAKE 2 cups brown sugar Y2 cup hot water '% pound butter 2 cups pastry flour 2 eggs Y2 cup buttermilk 1 square bitter chocolate 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder

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