2 tablespoonfuls butter.
1 teaspoonful soda.
2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar.
1 teaspoonful essence lemon.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, then add the milk (in which the soda should be dissolved), next the eggs well beaten, and lastly the essence. Mix two cupfuls of flour, and afterwards the third cupful of flour into which the cream tartar has been stirred. Bake in square, flat pans. Grate three ounces of chocolate, add four tablespoonfuls of milk; warm slowly, and add eight tablespoonfuls of white sugar. Boil three minutes, and pour over top of the cake. If you choose, you can slice open the cake, and put inside of it a custard of one pint of milk, warmed, and two eggs added, with sugar and flour to your taste.—Mrs. H.
Chocolate Cake.
2 cupfuls sugar.
1 cupful butter.
Yolks of 5 eggs and whites of 2.
1 cupful milk,