Cocoa Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. Crisco
2 c. sugar
2/3 c. cocoa
1 c. buttermilk
3 c. flour
3 eggs
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Cream the sugar, eggs and Crisco.
Add milk.
Fill a 1-cup container, putting the cocoa in first, then fill to the top with boiling water.
Add soda to the water and cocoa; stir.
It wil foam and run over into the sugar/egg mixture.
Dump entire contents of cup in and stir.
Mix in the dry ingredients:
flour, soda and salt; stir.
Add vanilla.
Bake in a greased and floured pan at 350\u00b0 for 40 to 50 minutes.