Chocolate Cake, No. 2

Ingredients

• One cupful of butter
• two of sugar
• three and a half of flour
• one of milk
• five eggs
• the whites of two being left out
• one teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• half a teaspoonful of soda
• one and a half of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream.

2. 2

   Add the sugar gradually, then the eggs well beaten, the milk, next the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been well mixed.

3. 3

   Bake in two sheets for thirty minutes in a moderate oven, and ice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 161. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cake, No. 2. One cupful of butter, two of sugar, three and a half of flour, one of milk, five eggs — the whites of two being left out, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar and half a teaspoonful of soda, or one and a half of baking powder

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