CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE

CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE 5 level tablespoonfuls of butter, 1 ¼ cups of sugar, 3 ½ squares of Chocolate, (melted), 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla, ¾ a cup of milk, 3 ½ level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 1 ½ cups of sifted pastry flour. Cream the butter, add sugar and chocolate, then the unbeaten eggs and vanilla, and beat together until very smooth. Sift the baking powder with one-half a cup of the flour, and use first; then alternate the milk and the remaining flour, and make the mixture stiff enough to drop from the spoon. Beat until very smooth and bake in loaf in moderate oven.