1-1/2 cupfuls sugar
1-1/2 cupfuls milk
1/2 cake chocolate
2 teaspoonfuls vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoonful salt
2 cupfuls flour
1/2 cupful Crisco
1 teaspoonful baking soda
3 tablespoonfuls boiling water
Boiled frosting
Put 1/2 cupful of sugar into small saucepan, add chocolate and
1 cupful milk. Put on stove and stir till it boils five minutes,
stirring now and then. Remove from fire, add vanilla and set aside to
cool. Beat Crisco and remainder of sugar to light cream, then add
eggs well beaten and beat two minutes. Now add remainder of milk, soda
dissolved in boiling water, flour, salt, and chocolate mixture. Mix
carefully and divide into two large greased and floured layer tins
and bake in moderate oven twenty-five minutes. Turn to cool and put
together with boiled frosting.
Sufficient for two large layers.