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Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 teaspoonful vanilla
• 2/3 cup milk
• 2 cups flour
• 3 level teaspoonfuls baking powder
• whites of 5 eggs, well beaten

Instructions

No instructions given.

Icing

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup milk (or a little more)
• 1 lump of butter the size of a walnut
• 1 teaspoonful vanilla

Instructions

Boil until waxy; remove from fire; beat until stiff. Spread melted chocolate on bottom and top of layers, and put the cream icing between.

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Notes

Attributed to Mrs. J. C. Walter.

Source

Recipes Tried and True (1894)

Categories

Chocolate Cakes.