Cashin’s Chocolate Cake

Cake:
6 eggs
1 c milk
2 tsps. baking powder
1/2 lb. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
Dash salt
2 c. sugar
3 c. flour
Frosting:
2 lbs. confectioners sugar
2 squares bitter chocolate, melted
1/2 stick butter
1/2 c. Pet milk
1/4 tsp. salt

Cream butter & sugar. Add eggs. Sift flour, salt & baking powder
add alternately with milk. Add vanilla. Divide batter evenly between 3 greased round cake pans. Bake in a preheated 350 oven for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Frost with chocolate icing when completely cooled. To make frosting: Sift sugar & salt. Melt butter over low heat in a large saucepan. Add remaining ingredients to the saucepan & stir until well mixed. Do not allow mixture to boil.