Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Two ounces of Baker's chocolate
• 4 eggs
• % cup of sweet milk
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• % cup of butter
• 1^ cups of granulated sugar
• 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
• 1% cups of flour

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the chocolate in 5 tablespoons of boiling water.

2. 2

   Beat the butter to a cream, add gradually the sugar, beating all the while; then the yolks; beat again, the milk and melted chocolate and flour.

3. 3

   Give the whole a vigorous beating.

4. 4

   Have whites very stiff and stir lightly into the mixture, add baking powder and vanilla, stirring very lightly.

5. 5

   Put in a greased cake pan, bake in a moderate oven 45 minutes.

6. 6

   Ice with chocolate icing when cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 146. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake. Whites of 6 eggs, 1 cup of butter, 2 coffee cups granulated sugar, 4 coffee cups of flour, 2 level teaspoons baking powder, % teacup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cream butter, add sugar, then milk. Have whites beaten to a froth and add alternately with flour; use a little of this flour for sifting in the baking powder at the last, then vanilla. Bake in jellir cake pans. White Velvet Cake. One pound of flour, 1 pound of granulated sugar, ^ pound of butter, 1 coffee cup of sweet milk, whites of 8 eggs, 2 level teaspoons of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of vanilla or almond extract. Cream the butter, add sugar and stir well, then add milk. Sift flour 3 times, the last time adding baking powder. Stir in lightly, alter- nately with the whites beaten to a froth. Bake in a well-greased mold. Marble Cake. One cup of butter, 2 cups of white sugar, 1 cup of sweet milk, 3 cups of flour, whites of 7 eggs, 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon of lemon. • Dark Part — One cup of butter, 2 cups of brown sugar, % cup of sour cream, 1 cup of molasses, 5 cups of flour, yolks of 7 eggs, a pinch of pepper, 2 tablespoons of cinnamon, 1 tablespoon of nutmeg, cloves and allspice, 1 teaspoon each of vanilla and soda. Butter the cake tin and put in alternately 1 spoonful of the light and dark batter. Pineapple Cake. One-half pound of granulated sugar, I/2 pound butter, 3 eggs, 2 cups of flour, 2 light teaspoons baking powder, flavor with 2 table- spoons of pineapple juice. Bake in 3 jelly cake tins. Fruit Cake. Four cups granulated sugar, 4 cups butter, 8 cups of flour, 12 eggs, 1 pint of cream, 2 pounds of raisins, 2 pounds of dates, 2 pounds of currants ,1 pound of citron, 2 whole nutmegs, 1 tablespoon spice, 1 tablespoon of cloves, 4 cups of molasses, 2 teaspoons baking 244 KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. powder. Flour fruit well from the flour to be used in the cake. Cream butter, add sugar, then yolks beaten light, molasses, spices, flour, fruit and whites stirred in lightly. Grease mold and place but- tered paoer at the bottom ; cook in slow oven 6 or 7 hours. This quan- tity makes 2 fruit cakes. It wUl keep a year in cake tin box. . Pecan Cake. One pound of C sugar, 1^ pounds flour, 3 heaping tumblers of pecan kernels, 1 tumbler of whisky, 1 teacup molasses,.^ pound butter, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 6 eggs ; flour fruit from the pound of flour. Cream butter, add sugar, molasses, whisky, flour, fruit and whites stirred in lightly. Bake in a greased mold about 3 hours; test with a straw. Sponge Oake. Two timiblers of powdered sugar, 2 tumblers of flour, 8 eggs, 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar. Sift flour, then measure it, and add cream of tartar and sift 3 times, also sift sugar, beat yolks well, then add sugar. Beat until white and light. Add flour and whites alter- nately, stir m very lightly, 1 teaspoon of extract of lemon. Bake m a nuick oven 1 hour. Ginger Cake. Four eggs, 1 teacup of brown sugar, 1 teacup of molasses, 1 tea- cup of butter and lard mixed, 3 teacups of flour, 1 teacup of sour milk, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 nutmeg and 1 tablespoon of ginger. Cream, butter and sugar and add 2 yolks well beaten, then flour, whites and milk with soda dissolved in it. Sauce — One pint of white sugar, % pint of water. Jiet come to boiling point, add 1 tablespoon of butter with 1 dessertspoon of butter rubbed in it. After it boils well take off and flavor with wme glass of wine and nutmeg. Spice Cake. Yolks of 7 eggs, 2 teacups of brown sugar, 1 teacup of molasses, 1 teacup of butter, 5 teacups of flour. Spices of all kinds mixed, 1 teacup of sour cream with 1 teaspoon of soda stirred in the last thing. Doughnuts. Two small teacups of sugar, 5% teacups of flour, 1 dessertspoon of butter,. 2 light teaspoons of baking powder, ^ a cup of sweet milk, nutmeg and cinnamon to taste, 2 eggs. Beat butter and sugar together; add yolks well beaten, then milk; flour and whites alter- nately. Chocolate Cake. Two ounces of Baker's chocolate, 4 eggs, % cup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, % cup of butter, 1^ cups of granulated sugar, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, 1% cups of flour

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