Diana's Chocolate Cake

Cream together:

2 ½ cups sugar

2 tablespoons shortening

Add:

2 eggs

In a small bowl mix:

1 Tablespoon vinegar

1 ½ teaspoons soda

Add vinegar mix to:

1 cup sour milk (to sour milk, stir a teaspoon of vinegar to milk)

Add all above mixtures together and beat well.

Add:

2 ½ cups sifted flour

1.2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup cocoa

Add:

1 cup boiling water

1 teaspoon vanilla

Pour into a long pan or two 9" pans and bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Cool and frost with:

Frosting:

In a saucepan mix:

2 cups sugar

1/3 cups cocoa

½ cup butter or margarine

½ cup milk

1 Tablespoon Karo syrup

Turn heat to high and bring to boil while stirring. This only takes a couple of minutes. Turn down heat, cover with lid for 1 minute. Beat to spreading consistency or pour hot onto the cake. Pouring it hot gives it a thick fudge-like consistency – yum!