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Thursday, April 27, 2023

Chocolate Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget

Chocolate Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Serves 6 

Ingredients: 

-2 cups cake flour 

-1/2 tablespoon salt 

-1 ¼ cups sugar 

-2 tablespoons baking powder 

-2 beaten eggs 

-1 cup milk 

-1 tablespoon vanilla 

-3 (1-ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate or 1/3 cup cocoa 

 -1/4 pound softened butter 

Steps: 

1-Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. 

2-Place flour, salt, sugar, and baking soda in a large bowl and mix well. 

3-Mix eggs, milk, and vanilla in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and blend well.

4-Melt chocolate for 30 seconds to 1 minute in a microwave or in a double boiler. Mix butter into the chocolate. Mix until the butter is the color of the chocolate. 

5-Grease an 8-inch baking dish and shake flour all around pan to coat edges. 

6-Pour batter in the pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. 

7-Run a knife around the cake edges and rub a cloth soaked in cold water on the bottom of the pan. Put a large plate over the pan and invert the pan. 

8-Let the cake cool and then frost. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France


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