Chocolate Cake
Take one-half cup of butter; two cups of sugar; two cups of flour; one-half cup of coffee (hot); one-half cup of milk; two teaspoons of baking powder; two teaspoons of vanilla; two eggs; one square of chocolate. Rub the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the beaten eggs and then the milk. Grate the chocolate fine, and add it to the coffee, which should be very hot; stir well and gradually add this mixture to the butter, sugar and eggs. Sift the powder and flour together; add, beating well, and then put in the vanilla. Bake in one loaf for forty minutes in a moderate oven.