Chocolate Cakes, No. 2
From Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper, 1902
Icing recipe follows.
Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Chocolate Cakes, No. 2. — Another recipe (Miss May Van Renen’s). Beat ^ lb. butter to a cream, add I lb. fine white sugar, 3 well-beaten eggs, ^ lb. grated chocolate, 3 ozs. fine flour, 2 ozs, blanched and pounded almond.s, and a pinch of baking-powder
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