Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

• three cupfuls of flour
• two cupfuls of sugar
• one cupful of butter
• one half cupful sour cream
• one cupful of milk
• one cupful molasses
• one cupful of water
• two cupfuls flour
• one pound of sugar
• one pound of dried
• half pound of butter
• one pound of raisins
• half pounds almonds
• a piece of butter the size of an egg
• four eggs
• one quarter of a cake of chocolate
• one tea-cupful white sugar
• one half tea-cupful butter
• one half tea-cupful sweet milk
• three eggs beptea to a stiff froth
• one half tea-spoonful soda
• one tea- spoonful cream of tartar
• two table-spoonfula of rose water
• three tearspoonfuls of the extract of nutmeg
• butter the size of an egg

Directions

1. Three cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, one half cupful sour cream, four eggs and one tea-spoon- ful of soda. Beat the sugar and butter together, and break the eggs into it one at a time ; then add the flour, then the sour cream with the soda.

2. For the Chocolate. — Use one quarter of a cake of chocolate, one cupful of milk, one cupful molasses, one cupful of water, a piece of butter the size of an egg, flavor with vanilla, and boil down until quite thick. — Miss L. Williams, Lex.

3. SNOW BALL CAKE. One tea-cupful white sugar, one half tea-cupful butter, one half tea-cupful sweet milk, two cupfuls flour. Whites of three eggs beptea to a stiff froth, one half tea-spoonful soda, one tea- spoonful cream of tartar, sifted with the flour. Beat butter and sugar thoroughly together, add the eggs, then the flour, then the milk and soda. — Mrs. J. M. Jones.

4. PORTUGAL CAKE. One pound of sugar, one pound of dried and sifted flour, a half pound of butter, whites of sixteen eggs, two table-spoonfula of rose water, one pound of raisins, three tearspoonfuls of the extract of nutmeg, one and a half pounds almonds (weighed before shelling), blanch and grate them, or pound in a mortar. EoU the almonds in part of the flour and stir them in just before baking. — Mrs. Wornall. •