Chocolate Cake I

½ cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 small eggs

½ cup milk

1½ cups flour

2½ teaspoons baking powder

2 ozs. chocolate, melted

½ teaspoon vanilla

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and yolks of eggs well beaten, then whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Add milk, flour mixed and sifted with baking powder, and beat thoroughly. Then add chocolate and vanilla. Bake forty minutes in a shallow cake pan.