1/2 cup butter or margarine

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 cups granulated sugar

2 eggs

2 2/3 cup sifted flour

1/2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 cup cocoa

2 cups sour milk

Cream butter until soft and creamy. Add vanilla while creaming. Gradually add sugar and beat until mixture is light and fluffy. Beat eggs with rotary beater until foamy and add gradually to fat-sugar mixture. Beating thoroughly, mix flour, salt, baking soda and cocoa; sift together. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk, (making three or four additions) beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Stir gently and quickly until batter is well blended but do not over mix. Spread carefully into well greased cake pan. Bake in moderate oven (3508 -375*) for 50-60 minutes.

-Mary Hale