Chocolate Cake, I

Ingredients

• one pint of flour
• two teaspoons of baking powder
• one cup of sugar
• two eggs
• butter the size of an egg
• one cup of milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix butter, sugar, and egg yolks, add milk, flour, and beaten egg whites.

2. 2

   Melt chocolate and stir into the batter, flavor with vanilla, and bake in layer tins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake, I. — One pint of flour, two tea- spoons of baking powder, one cup of sugar, two eggs, and butter the size of an egg; mix the butter, sugar and yelks of the eggs together, add one cup of milk, the flour and beaten whites of the eggs ; melt two squares of Baker's chocolate and stir I quickly through the batter ; flavor with vanilla, and bake in layer tins. Filling: — The white of one egg, one tablespoon of' water, and powdered sugar. Spread between the| layers when cool. Miss Lottie M. Still. Date Cake.— One cup of butter, two of sugar three and a half of flour, half a cup of sweet milk, the whites of seven eggs, and two teaspoons of baking powder

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