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Chocolate Gingerbread

1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cold water, 3 tablespoons melted butter, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 cups flour, 2 ounces melted Walter Baker & Co.'s Premium No. 1 Chocolate.

Mix molasses and sour milk, and add two tablespoons butter and soda dissolved in cold water; then add flour mixed and sifted with spices and salt. Add chocolate and remaining butter. Pour into three buttered round layer cake tins (Washington Pie pans) and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. Remove from pans, cool, and cover with vanilla or chocolate icing.