Chocolate Cake.
2 cups of sugar.
4 table-spoonfuls butter, rubbed in with the sugar.
4 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately.
1 cup sweet milk.
3 heaping cups of flour.
1 teaspoonful of cream tartar, sifted into flour.
½ teaspoonful soda, melted in hot water.
Bake in jelly cake tins.
Filling.
Whites of two eggs, beaten to a froth.
1 cup of powdered sugar.
¼ pound grated chocolate, wet in 1 table-spoonful cream.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.
Beat the sugar into the whipped whites; then the chocolate. Whisk all together hard for three minutes before adding the vanilla. Let the cake get quite cold before you spread it. Reserve a little of the mixture for the top, and beat more sugar into this to form a firm icing.