3 tablespoonfuls of hot water,
1/2 a teaspoonful of vanilla,
About 1-3/4 cups of confectioners' sugar.

Put the cocoa in a small saucepan; add the cold water and stir until
perfectly smooth; then the hot water, and cook for one or two minutes,
add vanilla and a speck of salt, then stir in enough sugar to make it
stiff enough to spread nicely. Beat until smooth and glossy and free
from lumps.

If too thick, add a little cold water. If not thick enough, add a little
sugar. Never make a frosting so stiff that it will have to be made
smooth with a wet knife. It is better to let it run to the sides of the
cake. For frosting sides of the cake, make a little stiffer.

This frosting never cracks as an egg frosting, but is hard enough to cut
nicely.

COCOA SAUCE

2 tablespoonfuls of butter,
1 cup of boiling water,
2 tablespoonfuls of flour,
4 tablespoonfuls of sugar,
4 teaspoonfuls of Baker's Cocoa,
1 teaspoonful of vanilla.

Melt the butter in the saucepan; mix the flour and cocoa together and
stir into the butter; add gradually the hot water, stirring and beating
each time; cook until it thickens. Just before serving, add the sugar,
vanilla and a pinch of salt, if necessary.

Use more cocoa if liked stronger. This sauce will be found excellent for
cottage puddings, Dutch apple cakes, steamed apple puddings, etc.

COCOA CAKE

1/2 a cup of butter,
3/4 a cup of milk,
1 cup of sugar,
6 level tablespoonfuls of Baker's Cocoa,
3 eggs,
2 level teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
1 teaspoonful of vanilla,
1-1/2 or 2 cups of sifted pastry flour.

Cream the butter, stir in the sugar gradually, add the unbeaten eggs,
and beat all together until very creamy. Sift together one-half cup of
the flour, the cocoa and baking powder; use this flour first, then
alternate the milk and remaining flour, using enough to make mixture
stiff enough to drop from the spoon; add vanilla and beat until very
smooth; then bake in loaf in moderately hot oven thirty-five or forty
minutes.

Tests for baking cake. It is baked enough when:
1. It shrinks from the pan.
2. Touching it on the top, springs back.
3. No singing sound.

COCOA MERINGUE PUDDING

1 cup of milk,
2 eggs (yolks),
2 tablespoonfuls of flour,
Pinch of salt,
4 teaspoonfuls of Baker's Cocoa,
3 tablespoonfuls of sugar,
1/2 a teaspoonful of vanilla.

Put the milk in the upper