Hot Fudge Pudding

Stir with a wire whisk:
1 Cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
3/4 Cup sugar
Add and mix:
1/2 Cup milk
2 Tablespoons melted shortening
Add and mix:
1 Cup chopped nuts
Pour into a greased 9 inch square pan.  
(Use 9 by 13 inch cake pan for double recipe.)

Mix:
1/4 Cup brown sugar
4 Tablespoons cocoa powder
1 3/4 Cups hot water
Pour carefully over the batter.
Bake at 350 degrees for 40- 45 minutes.
The layers will reverse during baking.

Serve warm or cooled.

From Aunt Lissette Ebeling

Hot Fudge Pudding is another true comfort food. It is also economical because there is no oil or eggs in it, which would be especially appreciated on some mission fields. It was, and still is, a family favorite and is best served warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Gramma got the recipe from Aunt Lissette, who was her sister-in-law.

Uncle Don and Aunt Lissette Ebeling were missionaries in East Africa also. Grandpa and Gramma Hoover were already in Africa when Uncle Don came out as a single missionary. He and Aunt Lissette already knew each other, but they had a very lengthy mail "courtship" across the Atlantic, partially during W. W. II. Letters took an extremely long time to get to and from East Africa during the war. They eventually found a somewhat quicker route through Canada, but Uncle Don was still not able to go back to the States to marry her till the war was over.

They returned to Africa as missionaries, and lived on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria. The roof was taken off of their house by a water spout, not once, but twice.

Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.