Chocolate Cake. Mrs. J. C. Walter
One and one-half cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, one teaspoonful vanilla, two thirds cup milk, two cups flour, three level teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of five eggs, well beaten.
ICING.—One and one half cups sugar, one half cup milk (or a little more), a lump of butter the size of a walnut, one teaspoonful vanilla. Boil until waxy; remove from fire; beat until stiff. Spread melted chocolate on bottom and top of layers, and put the cream icing between.