Recipe - Aunt Lauras Chocolate Cake

3 Squares chocolate
Three fourths cup Boiling water or coffee;
or combination
3 Eggs; well beaten
2 One fourth cup Sugar
Three fourths cup Butter
1 pn Salt
1 One half teaspoon Vanilla
1 One half (up to)
1 Three fourths cup Buttermilk
1 One half teaspoon Soda
2 One fourth cup Sifted flour
1 Square chocolate; melted

Melt 3 squares chocolate in water. Cool. Combine eggs, sugar, salt and
butter. Add chocolate mixture, vanilla, buttermilk and soda. Add flour.
Pour into three 8 or 9inch pans. Bake at 375 about 30 minutes. Cool and
ice with Colonnade Icing (see Index). Dribble 1 square chocolate over top
and sides.

MRS JOE WEISBERGER (NINA)

MARVELL, AR

From the book High Cotton Cookin', Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell,
AR 72366, ISBN 0918544149, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.