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Walter Baker's 1912 chocolate book — the story of La Belle Chocolatiere, and choice recipes for cocoa and chocolate.

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Birthday Cake

1/3 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, Yolks 2 eggs, 1 cup buttermilk, 2 cups flour, 1/3 cup Baker's Breakfast Cocoa, 1 teaspoon soda, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Cream the butter, and add sugar gradually, while beating constantly. Drop yolks of eggs into mixture and beat thoroughly; then add buttermilk, flour mixed with cocoa and soda, and vanilla. Turn into three buttered and floured layer cake pans and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. Put Marshmallow Frosting between layers and on top of cake.

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