Ryzon Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• K cupful (6 ozs.) sugar
• }4 cupful (3 ozs.) unsweetened chocolate, grated
• }i level teaspoonful grated nutmeg
• }4 level teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
• }4 cupful (4 ozs.) butter
• 1 large egg
• 2 level teaspoonfuls Ryzon
• I level cupful (4 ozs.) flour
• }4 level teaspoonful salt
• }4 lemon
• }4 cupful (i ounce) blanched and chopped almonds

Method

1. 1

   Sift sugar, chocolate and spices together twice, add butter, and beat with a wooden spoon until soft and creamy, add egg, beating well, add flour sifted with Ryzon and salt, strained lemon juice, and almonds.

2. 2

   Mix and turn into a tin that has been well greased and floured, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Ryzon baking book (1916) by Marion Harris Neil, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

J4 level teaspoonful salt. 2 tablespoonfuls (i ounce) butter or lard. I cupful (X pint) milk (scant). For Mixture: 6 apples. ^ cupful (X pound) sugar. X lemon. )4 cupful (2 ounces) currants. 3 tablespoonfuls melted butter. I level teaspoonful powdered cinnamon. For Cake; — Sift flour, Ryzon, sugar, and salt into a bowl; rub in shortening as lightly as possible with the fingers, just working it until fat is well blended with flour. _ Then mix to a soft dough with milk, or use milk and water, having this as cold as possible. Turn out onto a floured baking board, roll out, and line a well-greased square baking tin, pressing up wellaround thesides. For Mixture : — Clean currants. Peel, core and cut apples in thin slices; put them on cake in even rows, sprinkle in lemon juice, currants, and sugar mixed with cinnamon. Pour on butter and bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes. If the apples color too much, a buttered paper may be placed over fruit during baking. Sufficient for six persons. RYZON CHOCOLATE CAKE K cupful (6 ozs.) sugar. }4 cupful (3 ozs.) unsweetened chocolate, grated. }i level teaspoonful grated nutmeg. }4 level teaspoonful powdered cinnamon. yi cupful (4 ozs.) butter. 1 large egg. 2 level teaspoonfuls Ryzon. I level cupful (4 ozs.) flour. J4 level teaspoonful salt. )4 lemon. )4 cupful (i ounce) blanched and chopped almonds

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