Authentic Chocolate Cakes

[donna]

With Valentine Day almost here, thought post this recipe. It is from the "Post", April 15, 1865.

Chocolate Cakes

"A useful receipt for chocolate cakes: Beat the whites of two eggs with a quarter of a pound of pounded sugar into a frothy cream, and the juice of half a lemon, and six ounces of finely grated chocolate. Drop this mixture in spoonsful on a flat tin and bake them slowly."

The post refers to the Saturday Evening Post.

 

[donna]

Some history on Saturday Evening Post. It's first issue was August of 1821 in Philadelphia. It was printed on same printing press that had belonged to Ben Franklin.