Cocoa Cake

Ingredients

• Half a cup of butter
• a cup of sugar
• three eggs
• a teaspoonful of vanilla
• three-fourths of a cup of milk
• six level tablespoonfuls of cocoa
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• one and three-fourth cups of sifted flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one by one.

2. 2

   Sift flour, cocoa, and baking powder, then add milk and remaining flour.

3. 3

   Mix well, pour into a pan, and bake for 35 minutes.

4. 4

   Cover with icing when done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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