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Chocolate Cake

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Ingredients

• 1 cup sifted cake flour
• 1/8 t. baking powder
• ¼ cup shortening
• 1 egg
• ½ t vanilla
• ½ cup milk
• ½ t. soda
• Few grains salt
• ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 sq. melted chocolate chocolate

Instructions

1. Mix and sift flour soda baking powder and salt.
2. Cream shortening with brown sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Add egg and beat well.
4. Add vanilla and slightly cooled melted chocolate.
5. Add sifted dry ingredients and milk alternately to the creamed mixture.
6. Mix well.
7. Pour batter into a greased and lined eight inch 1 yer pan.
8. Bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven 350.
9. Cool on cake rack.

Chocolate Cake