Chocolate Cake, page 175

Whites of 8 eggs, 2 cups of sugar, 1 small cup of butter, 1 cup of milk, 3/4 cup of corn starch, 3 cups of flour, 2 1/2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Filling: One-fourth of a cake of Baker's chocolate, 1/2 cup of milk, half cup of sugar, 1 teaspoonful vanilla, 1 heaping teaspoonful of corn starch. Put the chocolate, sugar, and milk on the stove in a sauce pan and just let it boil; add the corn starch, and after taking it off the stove add the vanilla.

Prince of Wales Cake, page 186

White part: 1 1/2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup of butter, 1/2 cup of sweet milk, 1 cup of white sugar, whites of 3 eggs, 2 large teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Black part: One cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sour milk, 2 cups flour, 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 table-spoonful of molasses, 1 of cinnamon, 1/2 table-spoonful of cloves, 1 nutmeg, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in warm water.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.