Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Half lb. butter
• yolks of 12 eggs
• 0.5 lb. white sugar
• 0.5 lb. ground almonds
• 0.5 lb. chocolate
• 2 tablespoonfuls cinnamon
• 0.25 teaspoonful pounded cloves

Method

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   Melt the butter and stir it until it froths, beat the yolks of the eggs and stir into the butter; add the sugar and pounded almonds, grated chocolate, cinnamon and pounded cloves, beat well for 15 minutes; then beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, and add these to the above mixture; butter the mould, and bake the above in a moderate oven for 1.5 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake — Half lb. butter, yolks of 12 eggs, 3^ lb. white sugar, same of ground almonds, J^ lb. chocolate, 2 tablespoonfuls cinnamon, }4 teaspoonful pounded cloves. Br

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