Chocolate Gravy

Here's a fun recipe that's easy and quick.  I've had it in my files for years (like 20 years).  :)  I remembered it recently when I was trying to think of a quick chocolate dessert.  It's yummy and very quick. 

Chocolate Gravy
by Beth S.  (Lang school student)

3 Tablespoons Cocoa
3 Tablespoons flour
7 Tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
dash salt

Melt butter in small saucepan.  Combine cocoa, flour,  and sugar in a small bowl and then add to butter.  Add milk, vanilla, and stir. 
Cook until gravy begins to thicken.  Serve warm over hot buttered biscuits.

Here's a recipe I've been promising Stacey I would put on the blog.  So, here it is!  Enjoy!

Sour Cream Chocolate Pound Cake
3 cups sugar
1 cup butter
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 eggs
3 cups plain flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup cocoa
1 cup sour cream

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add soda and vanilla.
Mix flour and salt.  Add in corn starch if altitude adjustment needs to be made.  
Then, alternate adding eggs one at a time with small amounts of flour mixture until all added.
Add cocoa and then sour cream. Mix until just blended. Bake at 325 for 1 hour 30 minutes (or until toothpick comes out clean) in a greased and floured tube pan.

Note - High Elevation adjustment -
6 tablespoons corn starch - Limuru
3 tablespoons corn starch - Nairobi

Cinnamon Bread - finally!

This is the bread from Zambia that was so loved by folks who took a long bus/car ride to and from Peteuke. It was also enjoyed by friends in Vancouver and Nairobi. Sorry it's taken me SO long to post it. The four loaves at the front at Cinnamon Bread I baked in Lusaka (the back three are banana bread).

Cinnamon Bread from Dawnya K.
2 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 cup buttermilk (or yogurt with a bit of milk)
¼ cup oil
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon soda
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1 tablespoon cinnamon
½ cup sugar

Mix all ingredients together EXCEPT cinnamon and 1/2 cup sugar.
Mix cinnamon and sugar together in separate bowl.
Pour in half the batter in a greased and floured large loaf pan then sprinkle 1/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons of sugar/cinn. mixture over batter. Pour in rest of batter and the remaining sugar mixture.
Cut with knife for a marble effect.
Bake at 350 for 50 minutes.

 Note: I usually make a double recipe and divide it between three narrow loaf pans.  Among those three smaller pans (with two recipes of batter divided between the three)  I use less of the cinnamon sugar mixture than called for.  I put about 2 1/2 Tablespoons of cinnamon over the first half of batter and then 1 1/2 Tablespoons over the top of each loaf.   I have also decreased the amount of sugar in the recipes by about 1/4 cup sugar per recipe.