Gateau au Chocolat (Chocolate Cake)

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. fresh butter
• 1/2 lb. caster sugar
• 1/2 lb. grated chocolate
• 1/2 lb. Vienna flour (sifted)
• 4 eggs
• 1 oz. ground rice
• 1 teaspoonful vanilla essence
• chocolate icing

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the grated chocolate and work in the eggs one at a time.

2. 2

   Now add the flour and ground rice, and lastly the vanilla flavouring.

3. 3

   Beat the mixture for at least ten minutes.

4. 4

   Fill a well-buttered gateau mould and bake for about three-quarters of an hour in a moderately heated oven.

5. 5

   When done, turn out onto a sieve and let cool, cover with chocolate icing and decorate to taste with glace royale.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new century cookery book (1901) by Charles Herman Senn, page 479. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gateau au Chocolat {Chocolate Cake). — \ lb. fresh butter, \ lb. caster sugar, £ lb. grated chocolate, £ lb. Vienna flour {sifted), 4 eggs, 1 oz. ground rice, i teaspoonful vanilla essence, chocolate icing

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