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Inexpensive Chocolate Cake

One cup sugar, butter or crisco 1/4 cup, 1 egg, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 cups flour, 1/4 cup cocoa, pinch of salt, 1 tsp. soda. Sift dry ingredients together and beat well. Bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven. Powdered sugar flavored with vanilla and moistened with warm milk or cream in which a tiny bit of butter has been melted, makes an excellent frosting. cup

— Mrs. M. Howard Ferguson

1910 Chocolate Cake Cream 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cups sugar. Beat in 2 eggs. Add 1/2 cup sour milk in which 1 teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved, 2 cups flour, and 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Melt 2 squares of chocolate, stir in 1/2 cup of boiling water; when smooth stir into the cake batter while still hot a little at a time. Frost with white frosting flavored with vanilla.

— Mrs. E. Knight