Crazy Cake

My boyfriend found this recipe on google reader. I guess its an old recipe from the depression. Its a perfect vegan recipe, because it naturally doesn't use milk and eggs. It was too expensive or scarce during the depression. I think it will be great to cook at one of my work classes.

3 cups flour
2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tbsp distilled white vinegar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups cold water

Oven temp: 350F

Stir together the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, and cocoa together and put in a 12 X 15 inch (or bigger) ungreased cake pan. The original recipe called for a 9X13 inch cake pan, but when I did this at work yesterday, they only had much bigger cake pans. I thought there wouldn't be enough batter and that the cake would be to thin, but it turned out the perfect height and the cake-frosting ratio was excellent. So try to use a larger pan, if you have one.
Make 3 wells. Put the oil in one, vinegar in the second, and the vanilla into the third.
Pour cold water over all, and stir it all together with a fork.
Cook for 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick/knife comes out clean.
Frost with your favorite icing.

Next time I'll share my home made icing that I created myself.