Chocolate Cake II
½ cup butter
1½ cups sugar
½ cup milk
2¼ cups flour
¼ teaspoon soda
¾ teaspoon cream of tartar
Whites 5 eggs
2 squares Baker’s chocolate, grated
Cream the butter; add sugar gradually, milk, and flour mixed and sifted with soda and cream of tartar. Beat whites of eggs, and add to first mixture; then add chocolate, and beat thoroughly. Bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.