Chocolate Cake (Alternate)

Ingredients

• ^ cup fat
• i cup milk
• 2 squares chocolate
• 1 cup sugar
• H cups flour
• f teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 2i teaspoons baking-powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream the fat; add sugar gradually, eggs well beaten and milk.

2. 2

   Add flour mixed and sifted with baking-powder.

3. 3

   Beat thoroughly, then add chocolate and vanilla.

4. 4

   Bake in layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Metropolitan cook book (1918) by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup sugar. Freeze mixture. ORANGE ICE-CREAM Add I cup orange juice and grated rind of 2 oranges to Lemon Ice-cream recipe. Freeze mixture. PEACH ICE-CREAM 1 1 cups peach pulp Juice 1 lemon 1 quart cream 1^ cups sugar or syrup Mix and freeze. BANANA ICE-CREAM One and 5 cups banana pulp may be used in place of the peach pulp. ICES "Water ice is fruit juice sweetened, diluted with water and frozen. Sherbert is a water ice mixture to which is added dissolved gelatin or beaten whites of eggs. Frappe is a water ice mixture frozen to a mush, using equal parts of ice and salt in freezing. 56 THE METROPOLITAN LIFE COOK BOOK CAKES Cakes should be regarded as confection and eaten as such. WAR CAKE 1 cup molasses 1 teaspoon salt 3 cups flour 1 cup corn syrup 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon soda 1 1 cups boiling water ^ teaspoon cloves 2 teaspoons baking- 2 cups raisins ^ teaspoon nutmeg powder 2 tablespoons fat Boil first 9 ingredients. Cool, add the flour sifted with the soda and baking-powder. Drop into well-greased loaf tins. Bake 45 minutes in a moderately hot oven. Make 2 loaves. PLAIN CAKE I cup fat i cup milk | teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 3 egg whites 3 egg yolks 3 teaspoons baking-powder 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream the fat, add sugar gradually and continue to cream until the mixture is creamy. Add the well-beaten yolks, the milk alternately with the flour mixed and sifted with the baking-powder and salt. Beat mixture thoroughly. Fold in the stiffly beaten wJiites and vanilla. Bake in a loaf or layers. CHOCOLATE CAKE Make same as Plain Cake, adding one square melted chocolate cooked with 2 tablespoons boiling water, to the fat and sugar mixture. MARBLE CAKE Make same as Plain Cake, adding ^ square melted chocolate cooked with 1 tablespoon boiling water, to | of the batter. Arrange spoonfuls of dark and white mixtures in a well-greased pan. FIG CAKE t Make same as Plain Cake. Add | teaspoon cinnamon, I teaspoon ^ cloves, I cup finely-chopped figs to I of the batter. Bake this in 1 layer and the remaining | in 2 layers. "When done, put fig layer between the other two, a layer of frosting between each. LIGHT FRUIT CAKE Make same as Plain Cake, adding | cup finely-cut citron, \ cup currants, i cup raisins and I cup finely-chopped nuts. NUT CAKE Make same as Plain Cake, adding 1 cup nut meats and 2 tablespoons less shortening. CHOCOLATE CAKE ^ cup fat i cup milk 2 squares chocolate 1 cup sugar H cups flour f teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs 2i teaspoons baking-powder

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