This section is from the book "Pipe Organ Cook Book", by Ladies of First Presbyterian Church Aledo, Illinois. Also available from Amazon: The Way to Cook.
Half cake chocolate, one cup sugar, half cup sweet milk, yolk of one egg\ boil until it thickens, then cool.
One cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, two eggs, one cup sweet milk, two and a half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon vanilla. Before putting in the flour, pour in the above. Bake in layers and put together with boiled icing. Mrs. Jessie P. Scott.
Frances Bay.
Two cups granulated sugar, half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, half cup corn starch, two teaspoons baking powder, whites of five eggs, one teaspoon vanilla; cream the butter and sugar together, add a part of the milk and flour, then the balance of the milk and flour, then the eggs, well beaten, then flavor. Sift flour and baking powder.
Mix one cup granulated sugar, one small tablespoon corn starch, two tablespoons grated chocolate dry, then add four tablespoons sweet milk, a small lump of butter, yolks of two eggs, beaten, about half teaspoon vanilla.
Mrs. Willard Wharton.
Mrs. Agnes Elliott.
Two cups brown sugar, half cup butter, two eggs, half cup sour cream, two-thirds cup chocolate, grated, and dissolved in one-half cup boiling water, teaspoon soda, two teaspoons vanilla, two and a fourth cups flour. Bake either in layers or loaf. Mrs. Ed Arterburn.
Half cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar beaten to a cream, half cupful of milk, one and a half cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, whites of four eggs added last. Take one cupful of this mixture and add to it five grated tablespoonfuls of chocolate wet with a little milk and flavor with vanilla. Put a layer of white batter in cake pan, drop the chocolate batter in spots, pour over remaining white batter and bake. Mrs. Eveline Davison.
One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, two cupfuls of flour, half cupful of corn starch, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, whites of seven eggs, two teaspoonfuls extract of almonds. Mrs. G. M. Bauer.
One-half bar of unsweetened chocolate, half cup of milk, the yolk of one egg. Cook all together. Add four tablespoons of butter while yet warm. When cool add half cup of milk, two cups of flour, one cup of sugar, one teaspoon of soda, and vanilla to flavor. The cooked portion should be a little thicker than molasses. Bake in two layers and put together with white icing. Mrs. Bessie Nelson.
Heat half cup chocolate in one cup milk, add one cup sugar, yolk of one egg, boil. Flavor with vanilla. One cup sugar, half cup butter, half cup sour milk, two or three cups flour, two eggs, one teaspoon soda, dissolved in hot water, stir all together and add flour last. Mrs. John Duff.
 
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