Sift flour, baking powder and salt 3 times. Cream butter and sugar. Add well-beaten eggs to creamed mixture. Then add the flour and milk alternately to the butter-sugar-egg mixture. Melt chocolate with boiling water over low heat; add soda and stir well. Cool chocolate before adding it to the batter. Then stir in vanilla. Grease cake pans and line them with waxed paper (two 9 inch pans). Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. (Batter will be thin.) Frost with vanilla icing.

Cleary Originally from: "The Charlotte Cookbook", by Jr. League of Charlotte, N. C.