Gran's Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 lb each of vanilla chocolate (?)
- 1/4 lb unsalted butter
- 1/4 lb sugar
- 2 oz grounds almonds
- 3 oz all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- chocolate icing
Instructions
- Grate chocolate and heat it slowly over pan of hot water or in oven in a spoonful or two of water
- Beat butter till soft. Add sugar and beat to a cream.
- Sift flour and separate whites from yolks of eggs
- Stir in yolks of eggs to butter and sugar
- Then chocolate and ground almonds, also flour and mixing well
- Whisk the whites of eggs very thoroughly and stiffly and fold in
- The last thing before putting in oven, baking tin and bake 3/4 to 1 hour in moderate oven
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