A New Snowdrift Cook Book

Mrs. Ida Bailey Allen for the Southern Cotton Oil Trading Company, 1920 — a shortening tin's cookbook, and a lesson in how fat was sold.

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Fudge Cake

1/2 Cupful Milk (additional) 1 Teaspoonful Vanilla 34 Teaspoonful Soda Dissolved in 1 Teaspoonful Boiling Water Cut the chocolate in small pieces and melt it over hot water. Then add the first half cupful of milk, mixed with the egg yolk, beaten, and stir like a custard until it thickens. Stir into this the sugar and Snowdrift, and transfer the mixture to a bowl. Then add the vanilla and, alternately, the flour and salt, sifted together, and the milk. Lastly, beat in the soda and fold in the egg white, whipped stiff. Transfer to a medium-sized dripping-pan, which has been rubbed lightly with Snowdrift, and bake about forty minutes in a moderate oven, 350 degrees F.. Cover with chocolate frosting.

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