Cream marg. & sugar. Add beaten eggs. Put cocoa, red coloring & hot coffee in a small bowl and mix, then add to sugar mixture & mix well. Mix flour, salt & soda together and add alternately with buttermilk. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased and floured 8

pans at 350 degrees for 35 - 40 minutes (toothpick should come out clean). Cool on wire racks."