Mother Hubbard's cupboard: Recipes collected by the Young Ladies' Society, First Baptist Church, Rochester N.Y. Fourth Edition

by N.Y.). Young Ladies' Society First Baptist Church (Rochester

BLACK CHOCOLATE CAKE.

One cup butter, two cups sugar, two and one-half cups flour, five eggs, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda dissolved in a little boiling water; one-half cake “Baker’s” chocolate, grated and put in the cake before stirring in the flour. Bake in jelly tins in four layers.

FILLING.

One pound white sugar wet with a little cold water; add the whites of three eggs, slightly beaten; one-half cake grated chocolate. Cook in boiling water until it thickens. Flavor with vanilla. Spread between the layers, and outside the cake. Sprinkle grated cocoanut over the top.

Mrs. J. A. S.