Chocolate Cake Filling

Ingredients

• one-half cake Baker's chocolate
• one cup milk
• two cups sugar
• one tablespoonful butter

Method

1. 1

   Let all boil together until proper consistency, then spread between layers.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Germantown D. A. R. cook book (1907) by Daughters of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania. Germantown chapter, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup milk, three cups flour, three teaspoonsful baking powder, one-half nut- meg, pinch of cinnamon, one cup raisins seeded, good one-half cup citron, wine glass brandy. Bake in loaf. "LADY BALTIMORE CAKE" "Oh, my goodness! Did you ever taste it? Its all soft and its in layers and it has nuts! ...Delicious." — Owen JVister, in "Lady Baltimore.'*1 "LADY BALTIMORE CAKE" One-half pound sugar, one-half cup milk, one- half pound flour, one-quarter pound butter, three eggs, two teaspoonsful of baking powder. Bake in layers. Icing:— Two cups granulated sugar, one cup water, boil until it threads (about fifteen minutes) one white of egg well beaten, pinch of cream of tartar one cup of English walnuts, one cup of raisins. "And now about the cauldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring Enchanting all that you put in — Double, double, toil and trouble ; Fire burn and cauldron bubble." — Macbeth. Contributed by Mrs. George Ross Green BLACK BEAN SOUP Soak over night one pint of black beans, in the morning boil in two quarts of cold water. Simmer about 5 hours, add more cold water as it boils away — one-half cup every one-half hour, so that there will still be two quarts when done. Serve with slices of lemon and hard boiled egg in each plate. 38 " There are sours as well as sweets in life." COLD SLAW DRESSING One-half cup of milk or cream, two eggs, one teaspoonful of mustard, one teaspoonful of sugar, one-half cup of vinegar. A little pepper, salt and butter, Beat eggs light, add vinegar, pepper and mustard. Stir while boiling, then stand till cold, after which add a tablespoonful of oil, pour over cabbage. Very good. DEVILLED CLAMS Two dozen clams chopped very fine, half as much bread crumbs as clams, two eggs, one cup cream, large piece of butter, a little onion juice and chopped parsley, salt and pepper. Bake in shells with ground bread crumbs and butter on top. DEVIL'S CAKE Four eggs, two cups sugar, one scant cup butter, three and one-half cups flour, one cup sour cream, one scant teaspoonful soda, one-half cake good chocolate. CHOCOLATE FILLING One-half cake Baker's chocolate, one cup sugar, one cup milk, two tablespoonsful corn starch. 59 ORANGE CAKE One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, one cup milk, three eggs, three teaspoonsful baking powder, sifted thro' flour. FILLING Two oranges grated with juice, one cup sugar, one egg beaten, one tablespoonful butter

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