Chocolate Layer Cake

Ingredients

• half a cupful butter
• one cupful sugar
• half a cupful sweet milk
• one teaspoonful vanilla
• the whites of six eggs
• half a teaspoonful baking powder
• two scant cupfuls flour
• one ounce of melted chocolate

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter to a cream, gradually add sugar.

2. 2

   When light, beat in milk and vanilla.

3. 3

   Beat egg whites to a stiff froth.

4. 4

   Mix baking powder with flour.

5. 5

   Stir flour and egg whites alternately into the mixture.

6. 6

   Bake in well-oiled plates.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mazdaznan encyclopedia of dietetics and home cook book (1909) by Hanish, Otoman Zar-Adusht-, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE. Beat half a cupful butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it one cupful sugar. When this is light, beat in half a cupful sweet milk, one teaspoonful vanilla. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth. Mix half a teaspoonful baking powder with two scant cupfuls flour. Stir the flour and whites of eggs, alternately, into the mixture. Have three deep baking plates well oiled, and spread two-thirds of the 36 batter in two of them. Into the remaining batter stir one ounce of melted chocolate

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