1/2 cup brown sugar (or white), 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1/2 cup grated chocolate or 2 heaping tbsp. cocoa. Boil and when tepid, add to the following: 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, 2/3 cup milk (sweet or sour), 1 tsp. soda sifted in 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. vanilla. - Mrs. Luella King.

Chocolate Nut Cake

Melt 4 squares of Baker's chocolate and add 2/3 cup brown sugar, 1 cup milk, 1 egg yolk, well beaten. Cook until smooth. Cream 1/3 cup butter with 1 cup brown sugar, 2 egg yolks (well-beaten), pinch of salt and flavoring, 1/2 cup sour milk in which 1 tsp. soda has been dissolved, 2 cups flour with 1 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 cup chopped nuts. To this add the chocolate mixture and fold in the well-beaten whites of the 3 eggs. Bake in flat pan 35 min. - Mrs. W. Mung.

Chocolate Layer Cake

1 cup lard (or butter) creamed with 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs well-beaten, 1 tsp. soda in 3/4 cup thick sour milk, 1 1/4 heaping cups flour, with 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 11/2 squares chocolate dissolved in 1/2 cup hot water.

Bake in layers 20 minutes in moderate oven.

Cover with chocolate or white frosting.

- Mrs. L. Shellberg.

Chocolate Fudge Cake

1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, a little salt, 2 tbsp. cocoa, 1 level tsp. soda dissolved in 1/2 cup sour milk, 1/2 tsp. baking powder sifted in 1 1/2 cup flour.

After mixing well, add 1/4 cup hot water (more if necessary to make dough very thin). Bake in shallow pan. When cold, split and fill with the following:

Filling

1 cup sugar, 1 tbsp. cocoa, 1 cup hot water, large piece of butter and a pinch of salt.

Boil and thicken with 1 heaping tbsp. cornstarch dissolved in a little cold water. 1 tsp. vanilla.

- Mrs. L. Harvey.

Chocolate Caramel Cake

Part 1 - 1/2 cake Baker's chocolate shaved fine, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup sweet milk, yolk of 1 egg.

Boil until it thickens and cool. Part 2 - 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter (scant), 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder, 2 tsp. vanilla.

Before adding flour, stir in the cooked chocolate.

Eggless Chocolate Cake

1/2 cup butter (or shortening), 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. soda, 1/4 tsp. salt, 2 cups flour, 2 tbsp. cocoa, 1 tsp. vanilla.

Cream butter and sugar. Sift salt, soda and cocoa with flour, add to mixture alternately with sour milk. Bake in a moderate oven.

- Mrs. W. V. Turner.

Cocoa Cake

1 egg, 1 cup sugar, 1/3 cup inched butter, 1 cup sour milk in which 1/2 tsp. soda has been dissolved, 1 1/2 cups flour sifted with 2 tbsp. cocoa and 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. vanilla.

Beat egg until light, add sugar and beat again. Then add melted butter, milk, flour and flavoring.

- Mrs. S. I. Koogle.

Cocoa Cake With Marshmallow Filling

1 cup sugar, 3 tbsp. melted butter, 1 egg, 1 cup sour milk in which 1/2 tsp. soda has been dissolved, 1 1/2 cups flour sifted with 1/2 tsp. baking powder and 2 tbsp. cocoa, pinch cinnamon, 1 tsp. vanilla.

Cream sugar and butter, add egg, milk and flour. Bake 15 minutes.

Filling

Boil 1 cup water, 1 cup brown sugar and 1 cup white sugar until it threads. Pour into beaten whites of 2 eggs stirring constantly. Add 1/4 lb. marshmallows and boil a fewT minutes. Cool before spreading over cake.

- Mrs. W. A. Brodkorb.

Cocoa Cake

1 tbsp. butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1/4 cup sour cream. 1 tsp. soda, 1 tbsp. cocoa dissolved in hot water, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 large cup flour, 1/2 cup boiling water, added last. - Mrs. H. R. Putnam.