1927 Solid Chocolate Cake Recipe - Old Cookbook Show - Glen And Friends Cooking

1927 Solid Chocolate Cake Recipe - Old Cookbook Show - Glen And Friends Cooking

This recipe is from the 1927 printing of 'The Eagle Cookbook' printed as a supplement to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper. The 'solid' in the title most likely refers to the use of solid chocolate rather than the use of cocoa powder as the main flavouring.

Solid Chocolate Cake:
Cook one half cup bitter chocolate in one half cup milk til chocolate is melted and let cool. Cream one half cup shortening and add gradually one half cup sugar and beat. Add three eggs, reserving two whites for frosting, and beat well till very light. Add one and one half cups flour, sifted, and mixed with one teaspoon soda. Alternately with one half cup sour milk. Stir in just enough to mix well and pour into greased pans and bake in oven 375ºF. Put together with Emergency Frosting.
In our oven in 8" pans this took about 18-20 minutes to bake.

Emergency Frosting:
Into the top of a double boiler put one (I think this is a mistake in the printing, I used two) egg white(s). Seven eighths cup sugar, three tablespoons cold water. put over hot water and beat with egg beater till consistency to spread. Flavour with any desired flavouring, but equal parts of lemon, vanilla and almond, make an excellent flavouring.

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