Chocolate Cake No. 2

Ingredients

• one-half cake Baker’s chocolate
• one egg
• one cup sugar
• one-half cup milk
• one-half cup butter
• yolks of three eggs
• two cups sifted flour
• two tablespoonfuls of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Grate or cut fine the chocolate and add it to the egg, sugar, and milk mixture.

2. 2

   Cream the butter with sugar and milk, then add the yolks of eggs beaten light.

3. 3

   Mix in the well-beaten whites, flour, and baking powder.

4. 4

   When the chocolate cools, mix it with the batter and bake in thick layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Popular cook book (1899) by Seeman Printery, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-half cake Baker’s chocolate; add one egg, one cup sugar, one-half cup milk and cook until it gets hot through,set aside to cool; then cream one-half cup but- ter with one cup sugar and one-half cup milk with yolks of three eggs; beaten light; then add well beaten whites, two cups sifted flour and two tablespoonfuls of baking powder; when chocolate gets cool, mix with this batter and bake in thick layers. FILLING. One and one-half pints of sugar, one-half pint boiling water; cook until it candies; then pour on it well beaten [ 94 ] whites of three eggs and beat until stiff enough to spread on cake. This isa delicious cake and very popular; you can use marshmallow filling if you prefer; one pound of sugar to whites of three eggs, cook sugar till it ropes, then pour on eggs and while very hot put in one pound of fresh marshmallow, cut up fine; stir till dissolved. Mrs. W. H. McCase. CHOCOLATE CAKE No. 3. One pound flour, one pound sugar, one-half pound butter, six eggs beaten separately, two spoonfuls baking powder in the flour, and one cup milk. CHOCOLATH FOR VEILLING: One-half cake chocolate, one-half cup white sugar, one- half cup brown, one cup sweet milk, one heaping table- spoonful butter. Cook until done. Mrs. HUGENE MOREHEAD. CHOCOLATE CAKE No 4. One cup sugar, three-fourths cup chocolate melted over a tea-kettle, one-half cup butter

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