This section is from the book "The Arizona Cook Book", by Williams Public Library Association. Also available from Amazon: Arizona Cook Book.
One cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, one cup milk, two and one-half cups flour, three eggs, one teaspoon (heaping) baking powder, one-fourth cup (unsweetened) chocolate, one-half cup English walnuts, broken up coarsely. Cream butter and sugar together, add milk and stir the flour in, lightly, in which the baking powder has been sifted. Stir in the chocolate which has been dissolved in hot water. Add nuts and then eggs, which should be beaten separately. Bake in square tins or layers.
One and one-half teaspoons butter, one-half cup unsweetened powdered cocoa, one and one-fourth cups confectioner's sugar, a few grains of salt, one-fourth cup milk, one-half teaspoon vanilla. Mix butter, cocoa, sugar, salt and milk together and boil about eight minutes. Remove from fire and beat until creamy. Add vanilla and pour over cake to depth of one-fourth inch. - Mrs. E. T. Donahue, Williams, Ariz.
One cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, two and one-half cups flour, one-fourth cup chocolate, one cup milk, one-half cup English walnuts, three eggs, one heaping teaspoonful baking powder. Cream the butter and sugar together, add milk, stir in lightly the flour into which the baking powder has been added, next the chocolate which has been dissolved, and lastly the eggs beaten separately. Bake in three layers. - Mrs. Bessie Daggs Lamb, Prescott, Ariz.
 
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