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AshtonUSA.com wishes everyone in Ashton Illinois and Lee County Illinois a Happy Chocolate Cake Day January 27, 2015 This recipe if one of the earliest printed recipes for chocolate cake in America. It comes from the cookbook “The Hostess” In America, chocolate was consumed primarily as a beverage until the 1830’s or 40’s. Cakes, as we think of them today, mostly did not exist then. According to the Dover Post, chocolate cake was born in 1765 when a doctor and a chocolate maker teamed up in an old mill. They ground up cocoa beans between huge millstones to make thick syrup. The liquid was poured into molds shaped like cakes, which were meant to be transformed into a beverage. Years later, a special dessert was created for a prince in the 1800's by an Austrian chef. He used two layers of chocolate dough with jam spread in the middle. Chocolate frosting was then poured over the dessert. Hence the birth of the chocolate cake!! The first boxed cake mix was created by a company called O. Duff and Sons in the late 1920’s. The first “just add water” Betty Crocker cake mixes were released in 1947. Information courtesy of National Day Calendar
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Warming Centers in Ashton Il and Lee County IL ASHTON Mills & Petrie Memorial Library Mon. - Thurs. 1PM-6:30PM 704 N. First Street Sat. 10AM-1PM Ashton, IL. 61006 Fri. & Sun. CLOSED 815-453-2213 AMBOY Pankhurst Memorial Library Mon. & Wed. 1PM-7PM 3 South Jefferson Avenue Tues & Thurs 9AM-3PM Amboy, IL. 61310 Fri. & Sat. 9AM-1PM 815-857-3925 Sun. CLOSED Amboy Pharmacy Mon. – Fri. 9AM-5PM 202 East Main Street Sat. 10AM-3PM Amboy, IL. 61310 Sun. CLOSED 815-857-2323 DIXON Dixon Public Library Mon. -Thurs. 9AM-8PM 221 South Hennepin Avenue Fri. 9AM-5PM Dixon, IL. 61021 Sat. 10AM-3PM 815-284-7261 Sun. CLOSED Lee County Senior Citizens Center Mon. - Fri. 8AM-4PM 100 West Second Street Sat. & Sun. CLOSED Dixon, IL. 61021 Major Holidays CLOSED 815-288-9236 or 815-288-0892 FRANKLIN GROVE Franklin Grove Library Mon.-Thurs. 10AM-7PM 112 South Elm Street Fri. 10AM-5PM Franklin Grove, IL. 61031 Sat. 10AM-2PM 815-456-2823 Sun. CLOSED PAW PAW Paw Paw Public Library Tues. Wed. Fri. 10AM-6PM 362 Chicago Road Thurs. 10AM-7PM Paw Paw, IL. 61353 Sat. 9AM-12 Noon 815-627-9396 Sun. & Mon. CLOSED
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