Devils Food Cake
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Combine 0.5 cup of sugar, chocolate, and 1 cup of milk in a saucepan. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Remove from fire, add vanilla, and set aside to cool.
Beat shortening and the remaining sugar to a light cream, add well-beaten eggs, and beat for 2 minutes.
Add the remaining milk, baking soda dissolved in boiling water, flour, salt, and the cooled chocolate mixture.
Mix carefully, divide into two greased and floured layer pans, and bake at 350°F for 25 minutes.
Cool and frost with boiled frosting.
Original recipe, verbatim
Devils Food Cake
lyi cupfuls sugar 2 cupfuls flour
lyi cupfuls milk yi cupful Crisco
}i cake chocolate 1 teaspoonful baking soda
2 teaspoonfuls vanilla extract 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water
2 eggs Boiled frosting
yi teaspoonful salt
Put yi cupful of sugar into small saucepan, add chocolate and 1 cup-
ful milk. Put on stove and stir till it boils five minutes, stirring now and
then. Remove from fire, add vanilla and set aside to cool. Beat Crisco
and remainder of sugar to light cream, then add eggs well beaten and beat
two minutes. Now add remainder of milk, soda dissolved in boiling water,
flour, salt, and chocolate mixture. Mix carefully and divide into two
large greased and floured layer tins and bake in moderate oven twenty-
five minutes. Turn to cool and put together with boiled frosting.
Sufficient for two large layers.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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