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Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cupfuls flour
• 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1/2 to 1 teaspoonful salt
• 2 ounces chocolate or 1/3 cupful cocoa
• 1/2 cupful water
• 1/4 teaspoonful baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cupfuls sugar
• 1/2 cupful milk
• 1 teaspoonful vanilla
• 1/3 cupful fat

Instructions

Cook the chocolate or cocoa in the water until a smooth paste is formed, stirring constantly while cooking. Cool, and add the baking soda.

Beat the egg yolks and whites separately. Mix as plain cake, adding the chocolate mixture after the egg yolks have been mixed with the sugar. Use the less quantity of salt if butter is used for the fat.

Bake in layers at 375 degrees F., placing Chocolate Filling between the layers and Boiled Frosting on the top layer.

Sour milk may be substituted for the sweet milk. When this is done, increase the baking soda to 1/2 teaspoonful and decrease the baking powder to 2 teaspoonfuls.

Baking soda is used with chocolate to neutralize a small quantity of acid (tartaric) contained in it. Its use with chocolate will also darken the cake.

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Source

School and Home Cooking (1920).