World's Fair Cake

Ingredients

• One-fourth pound of butter
• one and one-half cups granulated sugar
• the yolks of three eggs
• six tablespoons chocolate
• three tablespoons sugar
• two tablespoons boiling milk
• two cups of flour
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one cup of milk
• one teaspoon vanilla
• two small cups granulated sugar
• one cup of milk
• a piece of butter the size of a walnut

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter with sugar and egg yolks.

2. 2

   Mix chocolate and sugar with boiling milk, then add to creamed mixture.

3. 3

   Sift flour with baking powder and add alternately with milk.

4. 4

   Fold in beaten egg whites and vanilla.

5. 5

   Bake in four layers.

6. 6

   For filling, stir sugar and milk, let stand, then add butter and boil.

7. 7

   Beat after cooking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

World's Fair Cake. One-fourth pound of butter, creamed with one and one-half cups granulated sugar and the yolks of three eggs. Mix six tablespoons chocolate and three tablespoons sugar with two tablespoons boiling milk, and add all to creamed eggs. Sift two cups of flour J a more elaborately illustrated in yyOnin-rtC '^^^ evening post than in \J,^f glt/f l^ S'ly San Francisco newspaper. San Francisco's one clean newspaper. CAKES 137 three times, mix in two teaspoons baking powder; add alternately with one cup of milk. Lastly add the beaten whites and one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in four layers, and spread with the following filling: Stir two small cups granulated sugar and one cup of milk, and let stand one-half hour. Then add a piece of butter the size of a walnut

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