Categories: Cakes 
      Yield: 1 cake 
  
           Butter and flour for pan 
      1 c  Butter 
    1/2 c  Lard 
      3 c  Sugar 
      5    Eggs 
      3 c  Sifted flour 
    1/2 c  Sifted cocoa 
    1/2 ts Baking powder 
    1/4 ts Salt 
  1 1/4 c  Milk 
      2 tb Grated chocolate 
      1 ts Vanilla 
           Whipped cream (optional) 
           Shaved chocolate (optional) 
  
  Preheat oven to 325F. 
  Butter and flour a tube pan. 
  In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, lard, and sugar together until 
  they are light and fluffy.  Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after 
  each addition. 
  Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.  Add these dry 
  ingredients alternately with the milk to the egg mixture, stirring after 
  each addition until well blended. 
  Add the grated chocolate.  Stir in the vanilla. 
  Turn the batter into the prepared pan.  Bake at 325F for 1 1/2 hours. 
  Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.  Fill the center with whipped cream and 
  sprinkle with shaved chocolate, if desired.