Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 1% cup crisco
• 3 squares chocolate
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sour milk
• 1t. vanilla
• 1144 cups sugar
• 1 t. soda
• 1 egg unbeaten

Method

1. 1

   Blend Crisco, sugar, salt, and egg.

2. 2

   Beat well.

3. 3

   Melt chocolate over hot water.

4. 4

   Add with vanilla to first mixture.

5. 5

   Sift flour, measure and add soda.

6. 6

   Sift again.

7. 7

   Add alternately with sour milk to the Crisco mixture.

8. 8

   Pour into pan greased with a thin film of Crisco.

9. 9

   Bake in a preheated oven.

10. 10

    Cool and spread thickly with white frosting.

11. 11

    For added interest, pour melted chocolate over the frosting letting it drip down the sides.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wilkes County Home Demonstration Club cook book (1947) by N.C.) Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs (Wilkes County, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CAKE 1% cup crisco Poetasalt 3 squares chocolate 2 cups flour 1 cup sour milk 1t. vanilla 1144 cups sugar 1 t. soda Blend crisco, sugar, salt, and egg. Beat well. Melt chocolate over hot water. Add with vanilla to first mix- ture. Sift flour, measure and add soda. Sift again. Add alternately with sour milk to the crisco mixture. Pour into pan greased with a thin film of crisco. Bake in a preheated oven. Cool and spread thickly with white frosting. For added interest, pour melted chocolate over the frosting letting it drip down the sides, Mrs. H. J. Spicer Abshers Club 1 egg unbeaten

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