My grandmother was born in 1898 and lived through the Great Depression. This is her recipe for chocolate cake. It doesn’t use eggs, making it vegan as well.
My mother watched her make it and wrote down the recipe, as my grandmother made it from memory.
Granny’s Black Cake
(Argos Chocolate Cake)
Mix Together:
3 cups flour (flat)
2 cups sugar (slightly rounded)
2 teaspoons baking soda
6 heaping tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon salt
In a bowl or in well in dry ingredients add:
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons white vinegar
2 cups water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients ‘till well blended.
Put batter in greased cake pan (9” x 13” pan or Bundt pan.
Bake at 350Fº for 35 minutes, (325Fº if glass).
Toothpick should come out dry.
