Chocolate Cake
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
For the cake, cream Crisco, add sugar gradually, egg yolks well beaten, milk, flour, salt, baking powder, grated chocolate, citron, and raisins.
Mix and beat two minutes, then fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
Turn into a greased and floured tin and bake for one and a quarter hours in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
When cold, cover with frosting.
For the frosting, knead Crisco into sugar.
Melt chocolate, add coffee, sugar, salt, and Crisco, and stir until thick.
Add vanilla, put away to cool, and spread on the cake when cold.
Original recipe, verbatim
Chocolate Cake
For Cake
1 cupful sugar 2 cupfuls flour
^ teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful baking powder
yi cupful grated chocolate ^ cupful sultana raisins
^ cupful Crisco y^ cupful candied chopped
S eggs citron peel
For Chocolate Frosting
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 2 cupfuls powdered sugar
2 squares melted bitter 6 tablespoonfuls coflFee
chocolate ^ teaspoonful salt
yi teaspoonful vanilla extract
For cake. Cream Crisco; add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well
beaten, milk, flour, salt, baking powder, grated chocolate, citron, and
raisins. Mix and beat two minutes, then fold in stiffly beaten whites of
eggs. Turn into Criscoed and floured tin and bake for one and a quarter
hours in a moderate oven. When cold cover with frosting
For chocolate frosting. Knead Crisco into sugar. Melt chocolate,
add coflFee, sugar, salt, and Crisco, and stir until thick, then add vanilla
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Cakes
and put away to cool. When cold spread on cake. This frosting may be
used any time. It is just as good made one day and used the next by add-
ing a little more hot coffee. It is always soft, creamy and delicious.
Sufficient for one cake.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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