Chocolate Cake (Clara Gilbert)

2 ounces of chocolate
1 ¾ cups ” flour
½ ” ” milk
½ ” ” butter
1 ½ ” ” sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
heaping teaspoonful baking powder. Dissolve the chocolate in five tablespoonfuls boiling water.

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Bake in moderate oven.
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Beat the butter to cream, add gradually the sugar, beating all the time. Add the yolks, beat again. Then the milk + melted not hot chocolate + flour. Give the whole a vigorous beating. Now beat the whites to a stiff froth + stir them carefully into the mixture. Add the vanilla + baking powder. Mix quickly + lightly.
Clara Gilbert