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Vintage Chocolate Cake Recipes From 1920s

While practically all cakes are just variations to the basic sponge and butter cakes, we think the woman who likes cooking would like to add the following to her repertoire:

Chocolate Cake Recipe No. I

1/4 cup butter
1 cup fine granulated sugar
1/4 cup boiling water
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
Yolks of 2 eggs
White of 1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1-1/8 cups pastry flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla flavoring

Directions: Sift together three times, the flour, the baking powder, and the salt. Beat egg yolks and one white, saving the other white for frosting. Put butter into mixing bowl, add sugar; pour boiling water on the shaved chocolate, stir quickly and when melted add to butter mixture. Add beaten eggs, then dry ingredients alternately with milk, add vanilla. Beat all together. Pour into a greased cake tin and bake in a moderate oven.

To make the cake frosting, boil 1 cup of sugar with 1/3 cup water, without stirring, until the syrup threads when dropped from tip of spoon. Have egg white beaten stiff. Pour syrup gradually on beaten egg, beating constantly until of consistency to spread. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla or 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice and spread over cake.

To make a marshmallow icing of this, cut up 3 marshmallows and stir them into the hot syrup just before pouring it into the beaten egg white. When mixture is beaten to a smooth fluff, allow it to set for a few minutes before spreading on the cake.

Chocolate Cake Recipe No. II

1/4 cup butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
6 tablespoons cocoa dissolved in hot water
1 cup sour milk
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions: Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, then the cocoa dissolved in hot water; beat well. Sift flour and soda together and add alternately with the milk. Add vanilla and bake in a moderate oven.

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