3 tablespoons cocoa
1 1/2 ounce bo red food coloring
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup Crisco
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups cake flour -- sifted
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vinegar

Frosting
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup Crisco
1 cup oleo (not butter)

1. Combine cocoa and food coloring to make a paste. Cream together crisco and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time to sugar and beat well.
   
2. Add paste; mix well. Add vanilla. Mix flour and salt; add to batter.
   Add buttermilk to batter. Mix baking soda and vinegar well; while foaming, pour into batter.
3. Grease and flour pans and bake 35 mins in 350 oven. (Use 2 or 3 round pans.)
   
4. Frosting: Cook milk and flour until thick and cool. Cream sugar, Crisco and oleo well. Combine milk mixture with sugar mixture. Add 2 tsp vanilla and beat all like crazy (sic).
5. Frost cake (layered or sheet); shave a chocolate bar on top or use cake decorations.