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      Title: Eisenhower's Chocolate Cake
 Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Celebrity, Frostings
      Yield: 2 Servings
 
    1/2 c  Butter
      2 c  Sugar
      3 x  Eggs
      1 c  Sour milk
  2-1/2 c  Flour, sifted
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Baking powder; round
    2/3 c  Cocoa; dissolve in
    1/2 c  Boiling water
      1 ts Vanilla
    1/4 ts Salt

           FROSTING:
      2    Egg whites
  1-1/2 c  Sugar; sift fine
      5 tb Water, cold
      1 pn Salt
    1/2 ts Cream of Tartar
 
  Sift flour, baking powder & salt. Cream shortening. Slowly beat in
  sugar.  Add egg yolds & vanilla. Add cocoa, then flour mixture
  alternately with milk. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour in 2
  greased 9" layer cake tins. Bake 25 minutes in 375 F oven.

  FROSTING:

  Combine 2 egg whites, unbeaten with 1-1/2 cups sugar, finely
  sifted. Add 5 tb cold water, a few grains salt and 1/2 ts cream of
  tartar in top of double boiler. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
  Place over briskly boiling water. Beat with egg beater until stiff
  enough to stand in peaks, about 6-10 minutes. Add 1 ts vanilla and
  beat until thick enough to spread while frosting is cooling. Keep
  sides of double boiler scraped down with spatula.
 
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