Chocolate Cake
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Brown-sugar, shortening, and two-egg partial recipe
Green Recipe Box first handwritten Chocolate Cake card
Ingredients
- 2 C Flour
- 1 [T/t] soda; 1/4 ditto baking powder
- Salt
- 2/3 C shortening
- 1 1/4 C Brown sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 teas Vanilla
- 2 T Cocoa
- 1 C Milk
Directions
- Mix
- Cream 2/3 C shortening
- Add
Timing: 30 min
Temperature: 350
Hot-water-or-coffee cocoa and one-egg partial recipe
Green Recipe Box second handwritten Chocolate Cake card
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons lard or butter
- ½ cup cocoa in hot water or hot coffee
- 1/2 [ditto] sweet milk
- 1 teaspoon soda in the milk
- little vanilla
- 2½ cups flour
- 1 egg well beaten put in last
Directions
- soda in the milk; 1 egg well beaten put in last
Temperature: hot water or hot coffee
Compare the cards
Sugar, fat, cocoa, milk, flour, and eggs
- Green Recipe Box first handwritten Chocolate Cake card
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar; 2/3 cup shortening; 2 tablespoons cocoa; 1 cup milk; 2 cups flour; 2 eggs.
- Green Recipe Box second handwritten Chocolate Cake card
- 1 cup sugar; 3 tablespoons lard or butter; 1/2 cup cocoa in hot water or coffee; 1/2 cup sweet milk; 2 1/2 cups flour; 1 egg.
Leavening
- Green Recipe Box first handwritten Chocolate Cake card
- 1 uncertain T/t soda plus 1/4 ditto baking powder.
- Green Recipe Box second handwritten Chocolate Cake card
- 1 teaspoon soda in the milk; no baking powder listed.
Preparation and baking information
- Green Recipe Box first handwritten Chocolate Cake card
- Grouped Mix, Cream, and Add headings plus 350 and 30 min notes; no pan or explicit bake instruction.
- Green Recipe Box second handwritten Chocolate Cake card
- Soda goes in the milk and the beaten egg goes in last; no oven information or general method.
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