Eisenhower's chocolate cake

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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  Sifted Flour
       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 Cold water
       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~ oven. FROSTING:Combine 2 egg whites, unbeaten
   with 1 1/2 cups sugar, finely sifted. Add 5 tbsps. cold water, a few rains
   salt and 1/2 tsp. Cream of Tarter 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 tsp. 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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