Chocolate Layer Cake Recipe

Half a cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three whole eggs, or the whites

of six, one cup of milk, three cups of flour, two even teaspoonfuls of

cream of tartar and one teaspoonful of soda. Beat butter and sugar to a

cream, add the eggs beaten together, sift the cream of tartar and soda

in the flour, add the flour alternately with the milk. Bake in four or

five layers.



CHOCOLATE FILLING.--Take two unbeaten whites of eggs and a cup and a

half of powdered sugar and beat them together. Stir over the fire until

smooth and glossy two ounces of Baker's unsweetened chocolate grated,

with half a cup of powdered sugar and four tablespoonfuls of boiling

water, remove from the fire and stir while hot into the eggs and sugar,

and when it is cool spread the top and sides, and set the cake in the

oven for a moment to dry the icing.

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