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Directions:Mix sugar, eggs, and sour cream. Add cocoa and boiling water. Then fold in baking soda, salt, flour, and vanilla. Bake in 9x13 pan at 350º for 20 minutes. |
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Notes: Mom submitted the recipe, but it she got it from Grandma. I asked Grandma Hyde about this recipe's origin. This was her reply: About the sour cream chocolate cake. It came from me. I was working for Mary Ellen Hansen and had to sleep at Pete Hansen's. He had a big trailer type cookshack with living quarters. His cook slept there and there was an extra bed. Of course the cook, her name was Ida Schlim was happy to have company and she would have cake and coffee for me when I got over there from Mary Ellen's at night. The cake was delicious and I got the recipe from her along with the frosting.
When I got back home, My mother was told she was to take a cake to club and she forgot about it. I dipped a cup of sour cream from the can we stored it in to take it to town and made Ida's cake. She laughed when she got home. The cake was completely gone and some even asked for the recipe.
After your grandpa and I got married I found he liked cake with a sour cream nut filling. (I think you have the recipe for that. I'd make the cake in a 9X12 pan bake it and pour it on waxed paper on the counter and take a strong thread and split it in two. Then I'd put the bottom half back in the pan, spread on the filling which had been cooled to warm. Then I'd put the top back on and frost with fudge frosting. I used the regular cooked chocolate frosting but when I pretty much finished beating I'd put in enough powdered sugar to finish the thickness. That way the frosting stayed soft and didn't crack.
I don't know how many of those cakes I made. The schoolkids ordered it for every program and picnic and Larry Howard would come out the car when I drove up to see that it got into the schoolhouse o.k. His mother made a great chocolate cake, too, but mine had filling in it.
Anyway, thanks to Ida Schlim who really wasn't known by many, (their loss) was the originator of the cake recipe and it has gone down for generations in my family. Every in my family has it. That is where it came from-a nice old lady who worked hard cooking for crews and getting little thanks for all the hard work she had done in her life.
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