Chocolate-Cream Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of sugar
• half a cup of butter
• two cups of flour
• one and a half teaspoons of baking powder
• one-half cup of milk
• the whites of four eggs
• one cup of powdered sugar
• one-half cup of milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream together sugar and butter; sift flour and baking powder together; stir into the butter and sugar mixture with milk; beat in the whites of eggs; bake in a well-buttered mold.

2. 2

   For icing, boil together powdered sugar and milk until thick, then stir until white and spreadable.

3. 3

   Flavor with vanilla and cover the cake with melted chocolate.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE-CREAM CAKE. BY MRS. LILLAII BRICKNEB. (Daughter of Representative from Wisconsin.) jjNE cup of sugar and half a cup of butter creamed together ; two cups of flour and one and a half teaspoons of baking powder sifted together ; stir into the butter and sugar one-half cup of milk; stir in the flour and flavor with vanilla; beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth, stir into the mixture, and bake in a well-buttered mold. For the icing, boil together one cup of powdered sugar

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