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My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future. — Pearl Bailey

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January 3, 2009

Whites of 5 eggs, 1 3/4 cups sugar, 3/4 cup of butter or butter substitute, 4 cups flour, 2 level teaspoons baking powder, 2 teaspoons flavoring, 1 cup sweet milk or water.

Dark part: yolks 5 eggs, 1 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter or substitute, 1/2 cup sour milk,     3 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1/2 cake chocolate shaved in 1 cup water. Put on stove and boil until reduced to 1/2 cup; set off and cool, then add to cake mixture, 2 teaspoons vanilla. Bake in loaf or layer, alternating light and dark part. If in layers put together with chocolate filling.

–(Mrs.) C.P. Addington, Scott County Cook Book 1918. Gate City, VA: Boatright Printing Co., 1918.

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