Cream shortening; add sugar slowly; add flavoring and milk. Beat well and add flour which has been sifted with baking powder and salt. Mix in beaten white of egg.
DARK PART
- 3 tablespoons shortening
- ½ cup sugar
- Yolk of one egg
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cloves
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 6 teaspoons cocoa
Cream shortening; add sugar slowly; add egg yolk and mix well. Mix in milk; add flour, baking powder, salt, spices and cocoa which have been sifted together. Put this batter by spoonfuls and the same amount of white batter alternately into greased loaf pan but do not mix. Bake in moderate oven about 45 minutes. Cover with white icing [page 17].
MARBLE CAKE II
Make plain cake [page 10], saving out one-third of batter and adding to it 1½ ounces melted unsweetened chocolate. This chocolate batter is then dropped by spoonfuls into the white batter after it is put into the pan.