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Chocolate Cake

1 2 cup powdered Sugar, Eggs, 1 cup powdered Sugar, 1/2 cup Butter or Lard (or half of each) 11/4 cups Flour, 2 Squares of Choco- 1 cup sour Milk, 1 teaspoonful late, The Great "Arm & Hammer" Soda.

Cream together the sugar and shortening, (butter or lard); have the shortening partly melted so it will cream better. Add the eggs one at a time, and after the batter is light and creamy, pour into it slowly the sour milk with The Great "Arm & Hammer" Soda dissolved in it.

It takes about one and a quarter cupfuls of sifted cake flour to make a smooth cake batter, and not too stiff. First stir into the above batter half the flour, then pour in while stirring two squares of melted chocolate. To melt the chocolate, cut into small bits in a deep saucer and add 1/4 cup of lard or butter to it. Set into oven or over slow fire until both chocolate and lard are melted; stir together, then pour into batter. Add the rest of the flour after the chocolate. If too stiff, add a little more sweet milk. Bake in greased paper-lined loaf cake pan or bread pan. 1 cup Butter (or Lard)