I did not make my great grandparents chocolate cake this year( they owned a bakery) it is so rich, it always knocks peoples socks off, and its soaked in booze.
Whats shocking is the cake itself is actually vegan( the frosting, not so much) the date on the recipe is 1906. About 10 years Go I scanned all of the idex cards that were hand written. The hard part is figuring out what some stuff is, they listed every thing by brand name, not what it is. Somethings we don't know what it is, others I have been able to track down. Example, jackon, saw it in a lot of places, googlefu failed, finally saw a bottle from a bottle collector, it was a backstrap molasses with spices( no clue what)
Sadly every one that worked there or all of thier 13 kids all passed on.