1/2 lb butter1/2 Cup Crisco3 Cups sugar7 Tablespoons cocoa5 eggs1/2 teaspoon baking powder1 teaspoon vanilla1 Cup milk3 Cups flour (cake or plain)
Cream butter, Crisco and sugar until creamy. Add eggs one at a time. Beat well and add vanilla. Sift flour and cocoa with baking powder, add to creamed mixture, adding flour first; then 1/4 of milk, until all flour and milk has been added to creamed mixtu
Source: Costal Carolina Cooking, page 233
