Layer Cake - Ribbon Cake

Ingredients

• 1 teacupful butter
• 2 teacupfuls flour
• 2 teacupfuls sugar
• 1 teacupful milk
• 1 teacupful corn starch
• 6 eggs (whites)
• 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Mix and divide into four parts.

2. 2

   Leave one part white; color one with ten drops of cochineal; mix into one two tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate; stir into one the yolks of two eggs.

3. 3

   Bake in layer pans.

4. 4

   Put together with a light jelly, then ice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 130. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful baking powder 2 eggs V2 cupful chocolate 14 cupful butter Icing IV2 cupfuls sugar 1 tablespoonful butter V2 cupful milk Mix these together and boil until thick and ^ then beat until light enough to put cake together. Devil's Food Chocolate Cake V2 cupful butter 1% cupfuls flour 1 cupful sugar 1 level teaspoonful soda dis- 1 egg (whole) solved in milk 2 eggs (yolks) 3 squares chocolate l^^ cupfuls milk Creamed butter Beat butter and sugar together. Beat the eggs- together and mix with creamed butter. Dissolve soda in milk. Scald milk and mix with chocolate. Mix one yolk with this and put in cake. Icing 3 eggs (whites) 1 teaspoonful vinegar V2 cupful water Put over slow fire and when it begins to rope, pour slowly into stiffly beaten whites. Add vinegar and beat. LAYER CAKE Ribbon Cake 1 teacupful butter 2 teacupfuls flour 2 teacupfuls sugar 2 teaspoonfuls baking 1 teacupful milk powder 1 teacupful corn starch 6 eggs (whites)

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