`Best' Chocolate Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 lb. butter
2 c. sugar
2 c. sifted flour
2 eggs
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1/2 c. buttermilk
2 sq. chocolate
1 c. hot water
1 tsp. soda

Preparation

Melt chocolate; cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Sift flour and add alternately with buttermilk. Add 1/2 cup hot water to chocolate mixture.
Bring the other 1/2 cup of water to a boil. Add soda to boiling water. Pour into chocolate batter and add vanilla. Mix well. Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes at 325\u00b0.