Chocolate Cake with Icing

Ingredients

• 4oz. of butter
• 6oz. of sifted crushed loaf sugar
• 2 breakfast-cupfuls of milk
• a little vanilla for flavouring
• 2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• 1 jib. of flour
• 2oz. of liquid or warmed Chocolate

Method

1. 1

   Warm the butter and mix in the sugar.

2. 2

   Add milk, vanilla, and baking powder mixed with flour.

3. 3

   Beat in the warmed Chocolate.

4. 4

   Pour into buttered tins and bake in a moderate oven.

5. 5

   Cover with sugar-icing when done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 325. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4oz. of butter into a basin, warm it, and mix in 6oz. of sifted crushed loaf sugar. When these are well in- corporated, add 2 breakfast-cupfuls of milk, a little vanilla for flavouring, and 2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder mixed up with 1 jib. of flour ; then beat in 2oz. of liquid or warmed Chocolate

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