Chocolate Vinegar Cake

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Title: Chocolate Vinegar Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 9 servings

1 1/2 c Flour; unbleached; sifted
1 c Sugar
3 tb Cocoa; baking
1 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Vanilla extract
1 tb Vinegar
5 tb Margarine
1 c Water
Mocha chocolate frosting:
1 3/4 c Confectioners' sugar
3 tb Cocoa; baking
3 tb Margarine
3 tb Coffee; brewed; hot
1/2 ts Vanilla extract

Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt
together into a mixing bowl. Make 3 wells in the dry
ingredients. Pour vanilla into 1 well; vinegar into 1 well
and melted butter into the third. Pour water over all. Beat
with a wooden spoon until well blended. Pour batter into a
greased 9-inch square baking pan. Bake in a preheated 350
degree F. oven for 25 minutes or until cake tests done.
Cool in pan on rack. Frost with Mocha Chocolate Frosting.
Cut into squares.

MOCHA CHOCOLATE FROSTING: Combine confectioners' sugar,
cocoa, softened butter, coffee, and vanilla in a mixing
bowl. Beat, with an electric mixer set at medium speed,
until smooth.
NOTE; This recipe came from a very old church cookbook that
the woman found and is typical of many of the recipes of
the 1800's. The vinegar was used to keep the cake from
spoiling.

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