Flour, 3½ cupfuls;
Butter, 1 cupful;
Sugar, 2 cupfuls;
Eggs, 5;
Milk, 1 cupful;
Cream-tartar, 1 teaspoonful;
Bking Soda, ½ teaspoonful;
Fine white sugar, 1½ cupfuls;
Grated chocolate, 3 tablespoonfuls;
Vanilla, 1 teaspoonful.
Mix one cup of butter; two cups of sugar; yolks of five eggs and whites of two; three and a half cups of flour, into which one teaspoonful of cream-tartar has been stirred; one cup of milk, and half a teaspoonful of soda. Bake in jelly-cake tins, and use the following mixture for spreading between layers and on top: One and a half cups of sugar; the remaining whites of three eggs; three tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, and one teaspoonful of essence of vanilla; beat well.