From Scratch!

Today I pulled out the old red Purity Cookbook that was my mothers.  I found a chocolate cake recipe that I could make from scratch because I did not have a cake mix in the house that I could use to make a cake for my sister’s birthday.  

I found the best recipe that would allow me to use up some buttermilk and began hauling out bowls and sifter and more bowls.  I need four or five bowls to mix up the cake and the dry ingredients needed to be sifted 2 or 3 times.  I didn’t so something correctly because it didn’t look mixed well on the inside.  I am not sure what went wrong. It tasted great.  I sifted powdered sugar over the top, put a dollop of ice cream on the side and drizzled strawberries over it.  Festive and delicious but next time I will drive to the store and buy a cake mix.  It was a lot of work.  

It was a walk down memory lane using my mom’s old cookbook. It is a treasure.  The cake isn’t classed in the same category as treasure however but everyone ate it and liked it.  This is not a news flash…this is my reality.