Mahogany Cake with Sour Cream (1936)

• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 egg
• 4 tbspns chocolate
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 1 tspn soda

Put soda in sour cream.  Add sugar, egg, and then flour.

Melt chocolate and add. Then put in vanilla.  

Bake in loaf or layers. (Note - Bake at 350 degrees until firm and a knife can be cleanly inserted.)  

(Origin - My grandmother's collection of recipes from neighbors and friends. All recipes are handwritten, typed or newspaper clippings, from the 1930s to 1950s.  My grandmother was a farmer's wife in California's Central Valley.)