The Bride's Cook Book

A wedding present from the advertisers, San Francisco, c.1918 — a young wife's whole cookery course, paid for by the Blue Bird washer, the Portland Studio and Ghirardelli's chocolate.

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Chocolate Layer Cake

Grate one cake of unsweetened chocolate, add four tablespoonfuls flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one cupful of sugar, five eggs beaten with the sugar. Beat all fifteen minutes and bake in layers.

Filling-One cupful of milk, one heaping teaspoonful of corn starch, mixed smooth in milk. Beat 3 eggs separately, add yolks to cup of milk, add 2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract. When warm, add butter the size of a hickory nut and one-half cupful of sugar. in the beaten whites when cool.

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