ling milk and serve.
A gill of cream is a great addition to this cocoa.
Scalded milk may be used in place of boiled milk, if preferred. For
flavoring, a few grains of salt and half a teaspoonful of vanilla
extract may be added.
CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE
Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it one
cupful of sugar. When this is light, beat in half a cupful of milk, a
little at a time, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the whites of six
eggs to a stiff froth. Mix half a teaspoonful of baking powder with two
scant cupfuls of sifted flour. Stir the flour and whites of eggs
alternately into the mixture. Have three deep tin plates well buttered,
and spread two-thirds of the batter in two of them.
Into the remaining batter stir one ounce of Walter Baker & Co.'s Premium
No. 1 Chocolate, melted, and spread this batter in the third plate. Bake
the cakes in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes. Put a layer of
white cake on a large plate, and spread with white icing. Put the dark
cake on this, and also spread with white icing. On this put the third
cake. Spread with chocolate icing.
TO MAKE THE ICING. Put into a granite-ware saucepan two gills of sugar
and one of water, and boil gently until bubbles begin to come from the
bottom--say, about five minutes. Take from the fire instantly. Do not
stir or shake the sugar while it is cooking. Pour the hot syrup in a
thin stream into the whites of two eggs that have been beaten to a stiff
froth, beating the mixture all the time. Continue to beat until the
icing is thick. Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla. Use two-thirds
of this as a white icing, and to the remaining third add one ounce of
melted chocolate. To melt the chocolate, shave it fine and put in a cup,
which is then to be placed in a pan of boiling water.
CHOCOLATE CAKE
For two sheets of cake, use three ounces of Walter Baker & Co.'s Premium
No. 1 Chocolate, three eggs, one cupful and three-fourths of sifted
pastry flour, one cupful and three-fourths of sugar, half a cupful of
butter, half a cupful of milk, half a teaspoonful of vanilla extract,
one teaspoonful and a half of baking powder.
Grate the chocolate. Beat the butter to a cream, and gradually beat in
the sugar. Beat in the milk and vanilla, then the eggs (already well
beaten), next the chocolate, and finally the flour, in which the baking
powder should be mixed. Pour into two well buttered shallow cake pans.
Bake for
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