Chocolate Cake
3 squares grated unsweetened chocolate 2 tablespoons sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons milk 4 tablespoons butter or other shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2/3 cup milk 1 1/3 cups flour 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 1/8 teaspoon salt Cook slowly together until smooth chocolate, 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 1/2 tablespoons milk. Cream butter; add sugar and beat well. Add yolks of eggs and beat again. Stir in chocolate mixture and then add alternately the milk and flour with which have been sifted the baking powder and salt. Fold in carefully the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 50 to 60 minutes. If desired, cover with white or chocolate icing.