Choc Cakes

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Ingredients

  • 3/4 C cocoa
  • brown sugar; Spry shortening; white sugar; baking powder; sifted flour, written in abbreviated card 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

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