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Plain Chocolate Cake

½ cup butter 1½ cups sugar 2 cups flour 5 tablespoons boiling water 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powder ½ cup milk 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream the butter; add the sugar very gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, flour in which the baking powder and salt have been sifted, milk, and chocolate mixed with water. Beat well; add beaten whites, pour into buttered pans, and bake forty to fifty minutes in a moderate oven. This cake may be baked in small cakes by omitting one fourth cup flour.

Chocolate Cake No. 2 4 ounces Lowney's Premium Choc- 2 cups flour olate 1½ cups sugar ½ cup butter ½ cup milk 3 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons boiling water Melt chocolate, add boiling water, and cook over hot water until smooth. Cream butter; add sugar gradually; when of a creamy consistency, add chocolate mixture, yolks of eggs well beaten, flour in which salt and baking powder have been sifted, and milk. Beat well; cut and fold in well-beaten whites; add flavoring. Pour into buttered pans and bake in a moderate oven thirty or forty minutes. Frost with white or chocolate frosting.

This mixture may be used for layer cakes by omitting one fourth cup flour and baking in layer cake pans. 1 cup butter 1½ cups sugar cup milk 5 egg yolks 1 teaspoon salt