Chocolate Loaf Cake a la Elvira

Ingredients

• Half cup butter
• one and a half cups sugar
• two cups flour
• two teaspoons Royal baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• half cup milk
• one teaspoon vanilla
• four eggs
• four ounces chocolate
• five tablespoons hot water

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter to a cream, add sugar, stir well, add yolks one at a time, then the milk, flour, baking powder, and vanilla.

2. 2

   Stir well, add the dissolved chocolate, then the whites of the eggs — well beaten.

3. 3

   Bake in well-buttered and papered cake tins, in a moderate hot oven, from forty to fifty minutes.

4. 4

   Frost with a boiled chocolate frosting; decorate with white.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 578. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Loaf Cake a la Elvira Gateau au Chocolat en pain, a la Elvira Half cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, two cups flour, two teaspoons Royal baking powder, a pinch of salt, half cup milk, one teaspoon vanilla, four eggs, four ounces chocolate dissolved in five tablespoons hot water

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