Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cup hot water
• 1/2 pound of butter
• 2 cups pastry flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup of buttermilk
• 1 sq. of bitter chocolate
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 tsp. baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Sift sugar, and cream with butter, beat eggs well and add to the creamed sugar and butter.

2. 2

   Dissolve the chocolate in the cup of hot water and add.

3. 3

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

As published

This recipe was extracted from Carolina cookery from Quaker kitchens (1924) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CAKE 2 cups brown sugar 1% cup hot water % pound of butter 2 cups pastry flour 2 eggs % cup of buttermilk 1 sq. of bitter chocolate 1 tsp. soda 1 tsp. baking powder

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