Marble Cake

Ingredients

• ^ square melted chocolate
• 1 tablespoon boiling water
• Make same as Plain Cake, adding
• 1 cup sugar
• H cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking-powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Make same as Plain Cake, adding melted chocolate cooked with boiling water to part of the batter.

2. 2

   Arrange spoonfuls of dark and white mixtures in a well-greased pan.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Metropolitan cook book (1918) by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon vanilla Cream the fat, add sugar gradually and continue to cream until the mixture is creamy. Add the well-beaten yolks, the milk alternately with the flour mixed and sifted with the baking-powder and salt. Beat mixture thoroughly. Fold in the stiffly beaten wJiites and vanilla. Bake in a loaf or layers. CHOCOLATE CAKE Make same as Plain Cake, adding one square melted chocolate cooked with 2 tablespoons boiling water, to the fat and sugar mixture. MARBLE CAKE Make same as Plain Cake, adding ^ square melted chocolate cooked with 1 tablespoon boiling water, to | of the batter. Arrange spoonfuls of dark and white mixtures in a well-greased pan. FIG CAKE t Make same as Plain Cake. Add | teaspoon cinnamon, I teaspoon ^ cloves, I cup finely-chopped figs to I of the batter. Bake this in 1 layer and the remaining | in 2 layers. "When done, put fig layer between the other two, a layer of frosting between each. LIGHT FRUIT CAKE Make same as Plain Cake, adding | cup finely-cut citron, \ cup currants, i cup raisins and I cup finely-chopped nuts. NUT CAKE Make same as Plain Cake, adding 1 cup nut meats and 2 tablespoons less shortening. CHOCOLATE CAKE ^ cup fat i cup milk 2 squares chocolate 1 cup sugar H cups flour f teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs 2i teaspoons baking-powder CAKES 57 Cream the fat; add sugar gradually, eggs well beaten and milk. Add flour mixed and sifted with baking-powder. Beat thoroughly, then add chocolate and vanilla. Bake in layers. Frost with White Mountain Cream frosting to which 3 tablespoons of grated chocolate have been added. One cup molasses may be substituted for the sugar, using only 3 tablespoons milk, adding $ teaspoon soda and substituting rye flour for the white. APPLE SAUCE CAKE 1 cup sugar apple sauce mixed I cup currants dredged with 3 teaspoons cinnamon with 2 teaspoons 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon cloves soda 2| cups flour Ij cups unsweetened f cup raisins ^ cup melted butter Measure ingredients in order given in a bowl. Beat vigorously. Bake in a well-greased loaf tin. QUICK CAKE i cup soft fat (scant) 1 1 cups bread flour ] 1^ cups brown sugar 3 teaspoons baking-powder

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