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Chocolate Cake II

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • ½ cup Butter
  • 1½ cups Sugar
  • ½ cup Milk
  • 2¼ cups Flour
  • ¼ teaspoon Soda
  • ¾ teaspoon Cream of Tartar
  • 5 Egg Whites
  • 2 squares Chocolate grated

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Cream the butter; add sugar gradually, milk, and flour mixed and sifted with soda and cream of tartar. Beat whites of eggs, and add to first mixture; then add chocolate, and beat thoroughly. Bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

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Where this recipe comes from

Chocolate Cake II, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.