Marble Cake

Ingredients

• Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream
• add gradually a cupful and a half of sugar
• then add half a cupful of water
• then one cupful of flour
• a pinch of salt
• the whites of four eggs well beaten
• another cupful of flour
• two ounces of melted chocolate
• one teaspoonful of vanilla
• a teaspoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Prepare light and dark mixtures separately, then layer them in a greased cake pan.

2. 2

   Bake in a moderate oven for three-quarters of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 100. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Marble Cake. Beat half a cupful of initter to a cream: add gradually a cupful and a half of <uo-ar- then add half a cupfu! of water, then one cupful of flour, a pinch of salt; then add the white* of four eggs well beaten, then another cupful of flour and the iuice and I'ind of a lemon. Stand this aside while yon make the dark portion of the cake bv beating together until verv light a (piarter of a cujifnl of butter, one cupful of brown .-^ugarand the volks of four eo:ori,: then add half a cupful of water and one cupful and a half of tlou'r. Beat until smooth, then add two ounces of melted choco- late and one te.ispoonful of vanilla : mix well and add a teaspoonful of baking powder

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