Chocolate Cake
Six sticks of chocolate, one and onehalf cups of sugar, five eggs, one cup of milk, two cups of flour, one-half cup each citron and almond chopped fine; teaspoon each of vanilla extract, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, two teaspoons baking powder; cream the butter and sugar, beat the whites and yolks of eggs separately; add the well beaten yolks to the cream butter and sugar; then add the milk and some of the flour; stir well and add the whites of the eggs, then the remainder of the flour, in which the baking powder has been sifted; add citron, blanched almonds, spice and flavoring last. Bake in a moderate oven and not less than one hour. An excellent loaf cake and, like fruit cake, improves with age.