2 cupfuls sugar
1 cupful Crisco
3-1/2 cupfuls flour
4 eggs
1 cupful milk
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
2 tablespoonfuls molasses
2 tablespoonfuls melted chocolate
1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoonful powdered allspice
1 teaspoonful salt
Cream Crisco, add gradually the sugar, yolks of eggs beaten until
thick, flour, salt, baking powder, milk, and egg whites beaten to
stiff froth. Mix carefully and to one-third the mixture add spices,
molasses, and melted chocolate. Drop in Criscoed cake pan alternately
a spoonful of each mixture, and draw spoon through once or twice to
make colors lie in lines. Bake in moderately hot oven one hour.
Sufficient for one medium-sized cake.