Chocolate Cakes

Ingredients

• 4 ozs. butter
• 5 eggs
• 6 ozs. sugar
• 6 ozs. flour
• 6 ozs. chocolate powder
• Essence of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar, beat the eggs, grate the chocolate, sift the flour and baking powder together, then add the eggs to the butter and sugar and stir in the chocolate and flour, and the essence.

2. 2

   Have ready some patty pans, half fill with the mixture, and bake from ten to fifteen minutes.

3. 3

   If a little milk be used, one or two eggs may be dispensed with.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CAKES. 4 ozs. butter 5 eggs 6 ozs, sugar i teaspoonful of Elliott's 6 ozs. flour Queensland baking 6 ozs. chocolate powder Essence of vanilla. Mode. — Cream the butter and sugar, beat the eggs, grate the chocolate, sift the flour and baking powder together, then add the eggs to the butter and sugar and stir in the chocolate and flour, and the essence. Have ready some patty pans, half fill witli the mixture, and bake from ten to fifteen minutes. If a little milk be used, one or two eggs may be dispensed with. 687— EAINBOW CAKE. 2 ozs. flour 2 ozs. cornflour 3 eggs 2 oz^. butter 1 tablespoonful dissolved 3 ozs. sugar chocolate Some jam J teaspoonful Elliott's Queens- Cochineal land baking powder. Mode. — Sift the flour, cornflour and baking powder. Beat the eggs well, then put the sugar and butter together, and beat to a cream, mix with the eggs and stir in the Cakes. flour, etc., gradually, add the essence and divide into three parts, with one part mix the chocolate, with another a little cQchineal and leave the other plain. Bake in three sand- wich tins in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes. When cold spread jam between them and place one on top of the other. 688— YIOTOKIA SPONGE. 3 eggs 3 tablespoonfuls white 1 teaspoonf ul Elliott's Queens- sugar land baking powder 3 tablespoonfuls fiour A piece of 'butter the size of a walnut. Mode. — Melt the butter and mix well with all the other ingredients, divide into equal parts and bake in two well buttered sandwich tins in a moderate oven, when cold spread a layer of jam and fold together. Time for baking, twenty minutes. 689— GEOUND EIOE OAKE. 3 J ozs. ground rice 5 ozs. flour ^ lb. butter J lb. castor sugar 3 eggs ^ of a lemon riiid (grated). Mode. — Beat the butter to a cream and work the sugar, lemon rind and it altogether for ten minutes. Add the eggs (which have been previously beaten), flour and rice by degrees, and turn in, stirring the whole time. Bake in a buttered paper lined mould. 690— OEEAM TAETS. J lb. flour 4 ozs. butter 6 ozs. sugar

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