This section is from the book "Tested And Tried Recipes Of Azusa And Vicinity Housekeepers", by The Azusa Woman's Club. Also available from Amazon: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.
(Miss Rogers' Recipe That Captured Her Multi-Millionaire Husband). Take 1 cup sugar, 2-3 cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2½ cups flour, 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, ¼ cup of chocolate, ½ cup of English walnuts, broken up coarsely, ■cream the butter and sugar together, add the cup of milk and then stir in lightly the flour, in which the heaping spoonful of baking powder has been sifted. Then stir in the chocolate, which has been dissolved by placing in a cup and setting in hot water. Add the nuts and lastly the eggs, which should be beaten, whites and yolks separately. The fudge frosting should be made as follows: 1½ tablespoons of butter, ½ cup unsweetened powdered cocoa, l¼ cups confectioner's sugar, a few grains of salt, ¼ cup milk, ½ teaspoonful vanilla. Melt butter, add cocoa, sugar, salt and milk. Heat to boiling point and boil about 8 minutes. Remove from fire and beat until creamy. Add vanilla and pour over cake to depth of ¼ inch.
 
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