Dear Abby’s Chocolate Cake

½ cup margarine    3 oz. unsweetened chocolate

1 cup water    2 cups sugar

2 cups flour    2 tsp. vanilla

1 ¼ tsp. baking soda    1 cup sour cream

2 eggs    1 tsp. salt

Directions:  Grease and flour 8” cake pans.  Combine chocolate, margarine, water in 

double boiler and melt. Cool.  Sift flour, soda, salt into bowl and set aside.  

Beat eggs with sour cream until blended, beat in sugar, vanilla.  Stir in cooled 

chocolate mixture. Beat in flour mixture, half at a time, until smooth.  Pour evenly 

into pans.  Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.  Check with toothpick.

Comment:  The go-to chocolate cake.