Poor man’s chocolate cake - Depression cake - vegan

Poorman's Chocolate Cake from Rosie
1.
3  cups flour
2  cups sugar
6  tablespoons  cocoa powder sifted
2  teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder

2.
3⁄4 cup  oil
2  teaspoons vanilla
2  tablespoons vinegar
2  cups cold water

Mix all #1 ingredients in bowl
Mix all #2 ingredients in another bowl, Then mix together
Pour into 9x13 pan greased
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes

Icing
1 cup margarine
2 1/4 cups icing sugar
Vanilla, peppermint flavouring to taste
Whip icing together with water
Spread over cooled cake (I only use 1/2 icing)

For Cupcakes
Makes 24 cupcakes
Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes
Cool and spread with icing


https://www.geniuskitchen.com/amp/recipe/poor-mans-chocolate-cake-486957
POOR MAN'S CHOCOLATE CAKE
3  cups flour
2  cups sugar
1  teaspoon baking soda
1  teaspoon salt
2  tablespoons  cocoa
3⁄4 cup  oil
2  teaspoons vanilla
2  tablespoons vinegar
2  cups cold water

a depression era recipe for a moist, rich chocolate cake that uses no eggs
READY IN: 1 hr

SERVES: 12
YIELDS: 1 cake

INGREDIENTS
3  cups flour
2  cups sugar
1  teaspoon baking soda
1  teaspoon salt
2  tablespoons  cocoa
3⁄4 cup  oil
2  teaspoons vanilla
2  tablespoons vinegar
2  cups cold water

DIRECTIONS
Mix all ingredients and pour in ungreased 9 X 13" pan. Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees, until pick comes out clean. If desired, top with a swirl of whipped cream.

Garlic Mustard- If you can’t beat them, then eat them

Noticed that the garlic mustard along the edges of the lawn are looking tender. A good time to use them as greens.

Then I thought at Passover the Israelites were supposed to have bitter herbs as well as the Passover lamb

So I went out ant pulled about 20 or so plants out of the ground - lots of leaves and twigs and dried grass that needed to be picked out, skirted around etc but managed to get them out of the ground quite easily since we have had a lot of April showers 

Brought them inside trimmed off the roots and lowers stems
Ended up with a colander full- and garlic mustard leaves are quite flat- not like spinach leaves that have a lot of crinkles

Filled the sink and rinsed them
Drained them well

Sautéed  them with oil- added some seasoned salt

The colander full didn’t amount to much when cooked

Put the dish out at potluck and labeled it as “bitter greens”

It all went- a few people commented that yes they were quite bitter.

But bitter is supposed to be good for you

and there are a few less garlic mustards to spread!