Sour Milk Chocolate Cake

This is what you do with your milk that goes sour. I imagine that as a child Grandma grew up with access to fresh milk from nearby farms, and when she moved to a small town as an adult, milk was probably delivered to the door a few times a week. Recipes that use ingredients like sour milk help us remember that during the Great Depression nothing was to be wasted.

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