Chocolate or Black Cake

Ingredients

• three eggs (whites beaten separately)
• two cups powdered sugar
• a little over one and one-half cups of granulated sugar
• one-half cup butter
• one-half cup sweet milk
• three cups flour
• three teaspoons baking powder
• two squares chocolate

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar and yolks thoroughly, then add milk, then whites of eggs beaten stiff, then flour and stir hard; then add chocolate dissolved in a little hot water.

2. 2

   Bake in greased pan in moderate oven, in a loaf; frost with white frosting, flavored with vanilla.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 71. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE OR BLACK CAKE. Mrs. William H. Harmon, No. 158 North Daly street, Los Angeles.— Take three eggs (whites beaten separately,) two cups powdered sugar, or a little over one and one-half cups of granulated sugar, one-half cup butter one-half cup sweet milk, three cups flour, three teaspoons baking powder, two squares chocolate

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