Classic Chocolate Pound Cake (1963)

• 2-3/4 cups sifted cake flour
• 3/4 tspn cream of tartar
• 1/2 tspn baking soda
• 1-1/2 tspn salt
• 1-3/4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup, soft shortening
• 1 tspn vanilla extract
• 3 medium eggs, unbeaten
• 1 egg yolk, unbeaten
• 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
• Confectioner's sugar
• Milk (with butter or lard, sue 2/3 cup milk; with other shortenings, use 1 cup milk minus 2 tbspns)

Start heating oven to 350 degrees. Line with wax paper bottom of a 3-1/2-inch deep 9-inch tube pan.

In a large bowl, sift flour, cream of tartar, soda, salt and sugar. Drop in shortening, then pour in milk and vanilla extract. 

With electric mixer at low to medium speed, beat 2 minutes, scraping bowl and beaters as needed. Add eggs, egg yolk, and melted chocolate. Turn into pan. Bake 1 hour, 10 minutes. Test for doneness, then cool. Just before cutting, spoon confectioner's sugar on top of cake. 

More "Lost" Pound Cake Recipes

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Brown Sugar Pound Cake with Rum Butter Glaze (1974)

(Origin - "The Good Housekeeping Cookbook" edited by Dorothy B. Marsh of the Good Housekeeping Institute, 1963.)