Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Two-thirds cup butter
• one and one-half cups sugar
• one cup sweet milk
• three cups sifted flour
• two teaspoons baking powder
• two squares chocolate melted
• whites of six eggs beaten stiff

Method

1. 1

   Beat well and bake in loaf or layers in a moderate oven.

2. 2

   Use any filling or icing preferred.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake. — Part 1. — Quarter pound Baker's chocolate, one scant cup sugar, half cup milk, yolk one egg: let this come to a boil and set aside to cool. Part 2. — One cup sugar, half cup melted butter well mixed together, two eggs beaten separately with the one white left from dark mixture, half cup sweet milk, two cups sifted flour, with two teaspoons of powder. Add dark mixture. — Mrs. TV. H. Wilson. Chocolate Cake (Sour Cream). — Cream one-third cup butter, add gradually one and one-half cups brown sugar, then the yolks of two eggs and the white of one egg beaten together until light, then two squares of chocolate melted in one-half cup boil- ing water. Dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in half teacup sour milk and add to the batter alternately with two cups of sifted flour. Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla: bake in a deep pan about fifty minutes, or in two layers about twenty minutes. Icing. — Boil one cup of sugar with quarter cup boiling water until it spins a thread when dropped from a spoon Pour gradually upon the beaten white of one egg, beating con- stantly until it thickens. Then add one teaspoonful of vanilla and spread on cake and decorate with nuts. Solid Chocolate Cake. — Yolks eight eggs, two scant cups sugar, one scant cup butter, one cup milk, two heaping table- spoons cocoa or grated chocolate, one teaspoon baking powder, vanilla to taste, four cups flour ; nuts broken in halves and stir- red into the batter add a fine flavor. — Mrs. R. P. Mahon. Chocolate Cake. — Two-thirds cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, three cups sifted flour, two teaspoons baking powder, two squares chocolate melted and HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 159 added last, whites of six eggs beaten stiff

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