Nevada Sour Dough Chocolate Cake (1978)

• 1/2 cup sour dough starter
• 1/4 cup dry milk
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 1 tspn red food coloring
• 2 eggs
• 1-1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 1-1/2 tspns baking soda
• 3 squares melted chocolate

Mix the sour dough starter, dry milk, flour, and water well, and let stand a couple hours in a warn place until yeasty smelling. 

Cream shortening and sugar. Add vanilla, red food coloring, salt, and baking soda. Add eggs, one at a time, and mix well. Then add melted chocolate. Stir all together with first mixture. 

Blend, and pour into a 7-x-11 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees until tests done. 

More "Lost" Recipes from "Ruby Valley Friendship Club Cookbook"
Pear Pecan Crunch Pie (1978)

Caramel Dumplings with Cream (1978)

(Origin - "The Ruby Valley Friendship Club Cookbook," published in 1978 in Ruby Valley, Elko, Nevada. Recipe by LaVonne Mader.)