Sohokoladen-Topte (Chocolate Cake)

Ingredients

• 2 oz. almonds, grated in their skins.
• 4 tablespoonsful flour.
• 4 oz. butter.
• 4 eggs.
• 4 oz. chocolate dissolved in 2 tablespoonsful water.
• Vanilla flavouring.

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add the sugar and beaten-up yolks and stir for 0.5 hour.

2. 2

   Then add the flour, chocolate, grated almonds and the vanilla flavouring.

3. 3

   Mix well and finally stir in the well-whisked whites of eggs.

4. 4

   Fill a well-buttered cake tin and bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from German cookery for the English kitchen (1906) by Ella Oswald, page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sohokoladen-Topte. (Chocolate Cake.) 2 oz. almonds, grated in their skins. 4 tablespoonsful flour. 4 oz. butter. 4 eggs. 4 oz. chocolate dissolved in 2 tablespoonsful water. Vanilla flavouring.

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