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New England manuscript cookbook, 1880-1910

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Chocolate Sponge Cake.
Melt four ounces of unsweetened chocolate over hot water, add a cupful of powdered sugar, a cupful of milk and stir until smooth. Beat the yolks of four eggs and a cupful of powdered sugar until very light, using a wire egg-beater, add the hot chocolate mixture and continue beating. Flavor with vanilla, fold in the stiffly-beaten whites of eggs and last a heaping cupful of flour mixed with a level tablespoonful of baking powder. Bake in a sheet or in layers. This is particularly fine made in two layers. Spread the following icing between the layers and on top of the cake: - Butter the inside of a granite saucepan, add a cupful and a half of sugar and half a cupful of rich new milk. Cook to the soft-ball stage, then take from the fire, flavor with vanilla, add half a cupful of chopped pecan meats and stir till creamy. The nuts may omitted for plain icing. 
Honey Cake
1 cup butter 2 " sugar 6 eggs. Salt. 1 cup water 2 " chopped raisins 2 " " figs 1 " " almonds Spices to taste. Large spoonful honey 3 1/2 cups prepared flour. Beat well.

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Chocolate Sponge Cake. Melt four ounces of unsweetened chocolate over hot water, add a cupful of powdered sugar, a cupful of milk and stir until smooth. Beat the yolks of four eggs and a cupful of powdered sugar until very light, using a wire egg-beater, add the hot chocolate mixture and continue beating. Flavor with vanilla, fold in the stiffly-beaten whites of eggs and last a heaping cupful of flour mixed with a level tablespoonful of baking powder. Bake in a sheet or in layers. This is particularly fine made in two layers. Spread the following icing between the layers and on top of the cake: - Butter the inside of a granite saucepan, add a cupful and a half of sugar and half a cupful of rich new milk. Cook to the soft-ball stage, then take from the fire, flavor with vanilla, add half a cupful of chopped pecan meats and stir till creamy. The nuts may omitted for plain icing. Honey Cake 1 cup butter 2 " sugar 6 eggs. Salt. 1 cup water 2 " chopped raisins 2 " " figs 1 " " almonds Spices to taste. Large spoonful honey 3 1/2 cups prepared flour. Beat well.