2 cups of sugar.

4 table-spoonfuls butter, rubbed in with the sugar. 4 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately. 1 cup sweet milk.

3 heaping cups of flour.

1 teaspoonful of cream tartar, sifted into flour. 1/2 teaspoonful soda, melted in hot water. Bake in jelly cake tins.

Filling

Whites of two eggs, beaten to a froth.

1 cup of powdered sugar.

1/4 pound grated chocolate, wet in 1 table-spoonful cream.

1 teaspoonful vanilla.

Beat the sugar into the whipped whites; then the chocolate. Whisk all together hard for three minutes before adding the vanilla. Let the cake get quite cold before you spread it. Reserve a little of the mixture for the top, and beat more sugar into this to form a firm icing.