One Egg Cake (Ten portions)
4 T-butter
½ C-sugar
1 egg
½ C-milk
11/8 C-flour
2½ t-baking powder
1 t-vanilla
Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, and the egg well beaten. Mix and sift the flour and baking powder and add alternately with the milk. Add the vanilla. Bake in a loaf-cake pan twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven.
Chocolate Icing for Cake
1 square of chocolate, melted
3 T-boiling water
1½ powdered sugar
½ t-vanilla
Melt the chocolate, add a little powdered sugar, then water and flavoring and sufficient sugar to allow the icing to spread on cake. Usually one and one-half cups is the necessary amount. Spread on the cake.
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