Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• £ lb. butter
• 6 ozs. sugar
• 10 ozs. flour
• 2 ozs. chocolate, grated
• 3 eggs
• £ lb. Sultana raisins
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• 1 teaspoonful essence of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream.

2. 2

   Add eggs well beaten, chocolate (which you have melted over the fire in a little milk), flour, baking powder, fruit, and lastly the essence.

3. 3

   Put into a buttered and floured tin and bake about one hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CAKE. 5 lb. butter. I 3 ozs. flour. £ lb. chocolate. 4 ozs. almonds. 2 lb. sifted sugar. | 7 eggs. 1 teaspoonful of sal volatile. Beat butter to a cream. Add the yolks of eggs and the chocolate, which you have previously grated and warmed in the oven. Beat well together, add flour, sugar, and the almonds well pounded, the whites of the eggs beaten to a froth, and the sal volatile. Bake in a slow oven. Ice with chocolate to keep it moist. It should not be eaten for three days. Lady Blythswood. CHOCOLATE CAKE. £ lb. butter. 6 ozs. sugar. 10 ozs. flour. 2 ozs. chocolate, grated. 3 eggs £ lb. Sultana raisins. 1 teaspoonful baking powder. 1 teaspoonful essence of vanilla

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