1 small cup sugar - 6 ounces. 1/2 cup butter - 4 ounces.

2 cups milk - a pint. 2 rounded teaspoons baking powder. 5 cups flour - 11/4 pounds. 2 ounces chocolate. Warm the butter and stir it and the sugar together until well mixed, then add the milk and vanilla flavoring if you have , it. Mix the powder in the flour and stir all together.

Melt two ounces of common chocolate in a little pan by warming it with nothing added and beat it into the cake batter.

Bake in shallow tins and frost over-when done, with frosting made without eggs, No. 635.