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Chocolate Cake

Cake

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sweet milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a little warm water and then added to the milk

Cream

• 1 cup grated chocolate
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sweet milk
• yolk of 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Cook up until like cream, and mix into above cake. Bake in slow oven in two layers, or in one shallow pan; frost with a white frosting, or the following:

Chocolate Frosting

• 1 cup of white sugar
• 2 squares of chocolate

Instructions

Put enough water over the white sugar to dissolve it; grate into it the squares of chocolate, and boil until thick enough to spread. Put on cake when cool.

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Notes

Attributed to Winona Hughes.

Source

Recipes Tried and True (1894)

Categories

Chocolate Cakes.