Subject: RECIPE: Chocolate nut cake
From: rob@mugeneral (Robert Robson)
Date: 20 Feb 87 04:29:11 GMT
Newsgroups: mod.recipes

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.RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHOC-CAKE-4 D "9 Dec 86" 1987
.RZ "CHOCOLATE NUT CAKE" "A no-bake graham cracker chocolate cake."
This is a delicious, easy-to-make cake that everyone enjoys.
It came from an East Indian friend of mine who said it had
been in the family.  It seems western so I am uncertain of its
origins.
.IH "Makes 1 cake"
.IG "\(14 lb" "butter or margarine" "125 g"
.IG "1 cup" "icing sugar" "130 g"
.IG "2" "large eggs"
.IG "\(34 cup" "cashews or almonds" "125 g"
.IG "2\(12 Tbsp" "cocoa" "25 g"
.IG "\(12 lb" "graham crackers" "250 g"
.IG "" "milk"
.IG "\(34 tsp" "vanilla" "4 ml"
.PH
.SK 1
Cream together the butter and sugar.
.SK 2
Chop the nuts and roast if desired.
.SK 3
Soak the crackers in the milk until they are soft but have not turned to mush.
.SK 4
Dissolve cocoa in 
.AB "2 Tbsp" "30 ml"
milk, and add this and the nuts to the creamed butter/sugar mixture.
.SK 5
Separate the eggs and set the whites aside.
To the creamed mixture add the yolks and 
vanilla and beat.
.SK 6
Whip the whites until stiff peaks form, then fold this
into the mixture.
.SK 7
Line a
.AB "9-inch square" "22-cm square"
pan with a layer of crackers, mixture,
and crackers.  Top with the remaining mixture and set in 
the refrigerator until hard.
.NX
Depending on how you want the texture of the cake you can soak
the crackers until they are slightly softened or until they
fall apart.
.SH RATING
.I Difficulty:
easy to moderate.
.I Time:
30 minutes preparation, several hours chilling.
.I Precision:
approximate measurement OK.
.WR
Rob Robson
School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada
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