Choc Cakes

Ingredients

• 3/4 C cocoa
• brown sugar; Spry shortening; white sugar; baking powder; sifted flour, written in abbreviated source forms
• 1 1/4 C scalded milk
• 1 t salt
• 1 t Vanilla
• 3 eggs unbeaten
• 3/4 t soda

Directions

1. Mix-sift cocoa & b. sugar
2. add scalded milk - stir & cool,
3. Blend spry salt vanilla add white sugar & cream - add eggs -
4. sift b. powder, soda & flour 3 times.
5. add flour to Cream mixture alter. with cocoa mixture
6. Layer 2 tins 350° - 40 min.

Timing

• 40 min.

Temperature

• milk scalded; cocoa mixture cooled; oven 350 degrees

Equipment

• milk-scalding vessel; sifter; mixing bowls; creaming and beating utensils; two layer tins; oven

Needs review

Uncertain instruction: add flour to Cream Mixture alter. & cocoa mixture: Word after “Mixture” is unclear; handwriting may abbreviate alternately. Candidates: “alter.”, “altern.”.