The Minnesota Farm Woman

Here is the recipe for those of you who don’t have The Cookbook. If you need any Jello or Tuna Hot Dish recipes, let me know!

2 cups sugar   2 eggs   1/4 cup shortening   1 T vinegar   2 t baking soda  1 cup sour milk   1 t vanilla   1 1/2 cups flour  1/2 t salt    9 T cocoa  1 cup boiling water

Cream together the sugar and shortening, add eggs.  Mix well.  Combine vinegar, soda, sour milk, and vanilla, add to first mixture.  Sift together flour, salt, and cocoa; blend into other ingredients.  Add boiling water.  Bake in 9 x 13 pan at 375 degrees for 35 minutes.

(You can just add the vinegar to regular milk and let it stand for a few minutes and it will become “sour”.  Don’t overbeat, and don’t use expired baking soda! )

Fudge Frosting

2 cups sugar  1 stick butter  1/3 cup cocoa, 1/2 cup milk  vanilla

Combine all ingredients except vanilla.   Bring to a boil and boil for 1 1/2 minutes.  Stir in vanilla. Cool to lukewarm.  Beat until of spreading consistency.

(Mom always sat down and beat this with a wooden spoon. My sister and I would argue over who got to lick the pan, so Mom would give the spoon to one of us and the pan to the other.)