Delmonico Cakes

Ingredients

• ½ cake (1 cup) unsweetened chocolate
• ½ cup boiling water
• 1 teasp soda
• ½ cup butter
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup sour milk
• 2½ cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Grate chocolate, pour boiling water over it with dissolved soda.

2. 2

   Cream butter with brown sugar, add eggs, sour milk, and flour.

3. 3

   Mix well and add chocolate mixture.

4. 4

   Bake in shallow square tins, ice when cool, and cut into cubes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Delmonico Cakes Grate % cake (1 cup) unsweetened chocolate into a bowl, then pour over it V2 cup boiling water in which 1 teasp soda was dissolved. Let this mixture stand while preparing the following: Cream % cup butter with 2 cups brown sugar, add 2 eggs, 14 cup sour milk, and 2^^ cups flour. Mix well and then add the chocolate mixture. Bake in shallow, square tins. When nearly cool, ice and cut into cubes about 2 inches square. [L. E. W., Mich. Snow Balls Mix % cup lard with 2 cups sugar, add 2 eggs, 2 cups sour milk

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