Chocolate Cakes
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound nice brown sugar
- 1 quart flour
- 4 ounces butter
- milk
Instructions
- Put half a pound of nice brown sugar into a quart of flour, and sift it.
- Make it into a paste with four ounces of butter melted in as much milk as will wet it.
- Knead it till light, and roll it tolerably thin.
- Cut it in strips an inch wide, and just long enough to lay in a plate. Bake them on a griddle.
- Put them in the plate in rows to checker each other, and serve them to eat with chocolate.