Instructions: Cream sugar and shortening, add eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk.

Sift together flour. soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Mix well.

Then add German chocolate that has been softened in warm over or double boiler.

Blend together well.

Cook in 9" stem pan that has been greased and dusted with flour for 1 1/2 hours at 300 degrees.

Remove cake from pan while still hot and place under a thigh fitting cake cover and leave covered until cold.

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