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Cocoa Cake

From The housewife's aid, 1950

Icing: Juice of 1 orange mixed with 1.5 cups powdered sugar until thick.

Presented as published in 1950. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The housewife's aid (1950) by N.C.). Young Woman's Aid Society Queen Street Methodist Church (Kinston, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COCOA CAKE % cup butter 1% cups sugar 4 eggs % cup Lowney’s cocoa % cup milk 114% cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 4% teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Mix in the order given and beat well for five minutes. Bake in buttered pan thirty to forty minutes in moderate oven.—Mrs. H. A. Hooker. COCOA CAKE 2 eggs, 1 cup butter, 1 cup cocoa, 2% cups sugar, 2 cups butter- milk, 2 teaspoons soda, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 3 cups of flour

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