Chocolate Cake.
Reading edition
Take: Flour, 3½ cupfuls; butter, 1 cupful; sugar, 2 cupfuls; eggs, 5; milk, 1 cupful; cream-tartar, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ½ teaspoonful; fine white sugar, 1½ cupfuls; grated chocolate, 3 tablespoonfuls; essence of vanilla, 1 teaspoonful.
Mix one cup of butter; two cups of sugar; yolks of five eggs and whites of two; three and a half cups of flour, into which one teaspoonful of cream-tartar has been stirred; one cup of milk, and half a teaspoonful of soda. Bake in jelly-cake tins, and use the following mixture for spreading between layers and on top: One and a half cups of sugar; the remaining whites of three eggs; three tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, and one teaspoonful of essence of vanilla; beat well.
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