Title: Chocolate pound cake with chocolate frosting
 Categories: Dessert, Cake, Chocolate, Sthrn/livng
      Yield: 1 X 10" cake
 
      1 c  Shortening
      3 c  Sugar
      6    Eggs
  2 2/3 c  All-purpose flour
    1/2 ts Baking powder
    1/4 ts Salt
    1/3 c  Cocoa
      1 c  Milk
      1 ts Vanilla extract
           Chocolate Frosting (optional

MMMMM---------------------CHOCOLATE FROSTING--------------------------
      1 c  Sugar
    1/4 c  Butter or margarine
    1/3 c  Evaporated milk
    1/2 c  Semisweet chocolate morsels
    1/2 ts Vanilla extract
 
     Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium
  speed of an electric mixer.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating after
  each addition.
    Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to mixture alternately
  with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.  Mix until just
  blended after each addition.  Stir in vanilla.
     Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.  Bake at
  325F for 1 hour and 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted
  near center comes out clean.  Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from
  pan, and let cool completely on a wire rack.  Spread with Chocolate
  Frosting, if desired. Yield: one 10-inch cake.
  
  CHOCOLATE FROSTING:
     Combine first 3 ingredients in a small saucepan; bring to a boil,
  and boil 1 minute, stirring occasionally.  Stir in chocolate morsels
  and vanilla.  Beat with a wooden spoon about 3 minutes or to desired
  spreading consistency.  Yield: 1-1/4 cups.
  
  Helen Dosier of North Carolina, in November, 1990 "Southern Living".
  Typos by Jeff Pruett.