Cooking Our Way

½ lb. butter
½ tea baking powder
½ c. shortening
½ tea. salt
3  cups sugar
4 Tbsp. cocoa
5 eggs
1 cup milk
3 cups flour (reg.)
1 Tbsp. vanilla

Cream together butter and shortening; add sugar and eggs.  Sift dry ingredients and add alternately to creamed mixture with milk to which vanilla has been added.  Bake in tube pan in 325 degree oven for 80 minutes.

ICING
¼ cup butter
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 lb. powdered sugar
1 tea. vanilla
Melt butter and chocolate.  Add to sugar and beat until of spreading consistency. Add cream if needed