1 1/2 c  Sifted cake flour

    1/2 c  Cocoa

    1/2 ts Baking soda

      2 ts Baking powder

    1/4 ts Salt

    1/2 c  Shortening

      1 c  Sugar

      1    Egg

      2    Egg yolks

    1/2 c  Cold strong coffee

    1/2 c  Buttermilk

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  1 1/2 c  Powdered Sugar

      1 tb Coffee

    1/8 ts Salt

      1    Egg Yolk, Well Beaten

      4 ts Cocoa

    1/4 c  Butter

      1 ts Vanilla Flavoring

  Thought you might be interested in these two recipes for a birthday
  cake. Michael, one of my roommates, just had his big 5-0.  He said he
  wanted a mocha cake so I hauled out a couple of fifty year old
  cookbooks and put together this cake.  (Well, they were almost 50
  years old++one was put out in '46, the other in '50.) The cake++the
  first I'd ever made from scratch++turned out great.  It was nice and
  moist, if a tad on the heavy side.  The recipe is actually for
  cupcakes, but I just made one big layer. The frosting is outstanding,
  a definite keeper.
  Sift flour, cocoa, soda, baking powder and salt together 3 times.
  Cream shortening with sugar until fluffy.  Combine whole egg and egg
  yolks, beat well and add to creamed mixture.  Combine coffee and
  buttermilk. Add sifted dry ingredients and liquids alternately in
  small amounts, beating well after each addition.  Pour into greased
  cupcake pans and bake in moderate oven (350F) for 20 minutes.
  Makes 18 medium or 12 large cupcakes.
  Frost with Fluffy White Icing.  Melt 1 ounce (square) chocolate with 1
  teaspoon butter and put a band around each cake with teaspoon or
  pastry brush.
  From "250 Classic Cake Recipes", edited by Ruth Berolzheimer,
  Culinary Arts Institute.  Consolidated Book Publishers, 1950.
  MOCHA ICING:
  Sift sugar.  Cream butter.  Add sugar.  Beat until smooth.  Add
  remaining ingredients.  Beat until well blended.
  From "The Searchlight Recipe Book", compiled by The Household
  Magazine, Topeka, Kansas.  Capper Publications, 1946.
  Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; June 24 1993.