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Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar
• 1/2 a cupful of butter
• 1/2 a cupful of milk
• 1 3/4 cupfuls of flour
• 1/4 of a pound of Baker's chocolate
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• 1/2 a teaspoonful of soda

Instructions

Scrape the chocolate fine, and add five tablespoonfuls of sugar to it (this in addition to the cupful and a half).

Beat the butter to a cream. Gradually add the sugar, beating all the while.

Add three tablespoonfuls of boiling water to the chocolate and sugar. Stir over the fire until smooth and glossy; then stir into the beaten sugar and butter.

Add to this mixture the eggs, well beaten, then the milk and the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been thoroughly mixed.

Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

This will make two sheets. Frost it, if you like.

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Notes

See also, Chocolate Cake, No. 2.

Source

Miss Parloa's New Cook Book

Categories

Chocolate Cakes.