recipes@decwrl.UUCP (10/16/87)
Copyright (C) 1987 USENET Community Trust Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the USENET copyright notice and the title of the newsgroup and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or the original contributor. .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SOURMILK-CAKE D "14 Apr 87" 1987 .RZ "SOUR MILK CAKE" "Aunt Georgie's chocolate cake" Don't cry over sour milk; make a chocolate cake out of it. This cake is from the "Farm Journal's Choice Chocolate Recipes" cookbook, and was originally posted to net.cooks by kathyd@azure. It is moist and rich and does not need frosting Mint chocolate ice cream and a slab of this cake makes an outrageous dessert. .IH "Serves 1 or more" .IG "1\(12 cups" "sifted flour" "150 g" .IG "1 cup" "sugar" "200 g" .IG "3 Tbsp" "baking cocoa" "50 ml" .IG "1 tsp" "baking soda" "5 ml" .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml" .IG "1" "egg" .IG "\(14 cup" "butter or margarine," "60 g" melted .IG "1 cup" "sour milk" "250 ml" .IG "\(14 cup" "hot water" "60 ml" .IG "1 Tbsp" "vanilla" "15 ml" .PH .SK 1 Preheat oven to .TE 350 175 . Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt into mixing bowl. .SK 2 Add egg, butter, sour milk, hot water and vanilla. .SK 3 Beat (preferably with an electric mixer) at medium speed for 2 minutes. .SK 4 Pour batter into a greased .AB "13\(mu9\(mu2-inch" "33\(mu22\(mu5-cm" baking pan. .SK 5 Bake at .TE 350 175 for 20 minutes or until it tests done (a toothpick or fork comes out clean). Cool in pan. .NX To sour sweet milk, place .AB "1 Tbsp" "15 ml" vinegar in a measuring cup and add enough milk to make .AB "1 cup" "250 ml" . .SH RATING .I Difficulty: easy. .I Time: 15 minutes mixing, 20 minutes baking. .I Precision: Measure the ingredients. .WR Tony Lill XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada tony@xios.UUCP