Chocolate Cake

Name: Chocolate Cake
Ingredients: one cup chocolate; one-half cup milk; one cup sugar; two cups brown sugar; one cup butter; one cup milk; one teaspoon baking powder; one egg; six eggs; one-half cups -- you can tell by the stiffness of batter; two eggs; one from cake part; one from filling part

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients

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Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Filling to be made first and when cold beat in cake. One cup chocolate, one-half cup milk, one cup sugar, one egg (yolk),
Cake Part : Two cups brown sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk, six eggs, flour about one and one-half cups — you can tell by the stiffness of batter. One teaspoon baking powder. Safe the whites of two eggs for frosting, one from cake part and one from filling part. Frost cake with chocolate frosting. — Mrs. S. T. Elliott, Kingman. Ariz.
WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 49

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

988Calories

29 gProtein

35 gFat

137 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Cake	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,404 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,128 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Chocolate + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,543 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).