Recipe: Sourdough Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Sour Dough Cake

1/2 cup thick starter
1 cup warm water
1/2 cup DRY milk

Mix these ingredients together and let them sit in a warm place until the mixture smells yeasty and a little like sour milk.

This will take about 3 hours.

Cream together:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 eggs
3 squares melted unsweetened chocolate

One at a time add 2 eggs beating after each addition then stir in 3 squares (1 ounce) melted unsweetened chocolate.

Add this creamed mixture to the sourdough mixture and stir 300 strokes with a wooden spoon.

Pour into 13x9 pan or an angel food tube pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes or until tested with cake tester.