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French Chocolate Cake
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 9
Custard made with two eggs, one pint of milk, half cup of sugar, and one tablespoonful of flour or cornstarch.
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 189. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
FRENCH CHOCOLATE CAKE. The whites of seven eggs, two cups of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one cup of milk and three of flour and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. The chocolate part of the cake is made Just the same, only use the yolks of the eggs with a cup of grated chocolate
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