Depression Era Chocolate Cake

 




With it being Mother's Day this weekend, I wanted to bake something to honor my mother.  Mom was brought up during the Great Depression.  She and her parents lived on her grandparents farm up on the South Mountain. They were poor, but always had lots to eat.  

One of mom's favorite memories was of she and her older sister sitting together in a chair on the front porch of their grandparent's house.  The house was situated on the South Mountain here in ...