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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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