The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

to above. To ½ of the dough mix ¼ pound chocolate, and bake of each part (the dark and light) 6 cakes. For filling take ¾ pint cream, yolks 8 eggs. Sugar to taste; flavor with extract vanilla, put on fire and stir until it thickens, then put between the cakes. =Chocolate Layer Cake.=—2 eggs, 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2 scant teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Beat egg yolks till thick. Gradually add and beat in the sugar. Add vanilla and milk, whites whipped stiff, and flour. Bake in 3 layer-cake pans in hot oven. Put together with chocolate filling, No. 2 (see Cake Fillings). =Chocolate Loaf Cake.=-½ cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, ¼ teaspoon salt, ½ cup milk, 4 eggs, 4 ounces chocolate dissolved in 5 tablespoons boiling water, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, vanilla, and dissolved chocolate. Alternate the milk and flour and beat hard, then add whipped whites, turn into buttered loaf-pan lined with 3 thicknesses of paper. Bake in moderate oven. =Cinnamon Chocolate Cake.=-½ cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, ½ cup milk, 1½ cups flour, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, ¼ teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoons powdered cinnamon. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar. Add cinnamon and beaten yolks, then alternate milk and flour. Add whipped whites, beat hard, and bake in 3 layer-pans in quick oven. When cold put together with boiled icing containing melted chocolate. =Centennial Cake.=-¾ pound butter, 1½ pounds brown sugar, 6 eggs, 2 cups milk, 1¾ pounds flour, ⅓ teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, ¾ pound cleaned currants, ¼ pound seeded raisins, ¼ pound sliced citron, 1 grated nutmeg, 1 glass wine. Dredge fruit well with a little of the flour. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten yolks, nutmeg, and wine. Beat in alternately the milk and flour, add whipped whites, and