The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book

Delicious Chocolate Cake. 8 eggs, the white beaten stiff; 2 cups of sugar; 1 cake of sweet chocolate; 1 cup of butter; 3 cups of flour; 1 cup of milk; 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; add the milk, then flour and beaten whites. Divide into equal parts and into half grate a cake ot sweet chocolate. Bake in layers, spread with custard and alternate the dark and white layers. FOR CUSTARD: 1 tablespoon of butter; 1 pint of milk, let boil together; then stir in 2 eggs, beaten with 1 cup of sugar and 2 teaspoonfuls of corn starch dissolved in a little cold milk ; then boil all and spread on cake. MRS. G. E. WRIGHT. Devil's Food Cake. No. 1. PART 1 : 1 cup brown sugar ; 1 cup grated chocolate; 1/2 cup sweet milk. Allow mixture to come to a boil and set aside to cool. — 114 — PART 2: 1 cup brown sugar; y2 cup butter; y2 cup sweet milk; 3 yolks of eggs; 2 cups flour; 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Mix in the usual manner and add to part 1, bake in layers and spread with soft chocolate icing. MISS BERTHA PRIESS. Devil's Food Cake. No. 2. 2 cupfuls brown or white sugar; y2 cup butter; y2 cup lard; 2 eggs; 1 cup buttermilk; 3 cups flour; iy2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon; y2 teaspoon allspice; y2 cake of ground chocolate, with enough hot water to make y2 cup; y2 teaspoon soda. Mix all together and bake in four layers. Put together with cooked icing. MRS. ALVIN STRIEGLER. Devil's Food Cake. No. 3. y2 cup butter; iy2 cups sugar; 2 eggs; y2 cup sour milk; 1 teaspoon soda; 2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 2 squares of chocolate. Cream butter and sugar; add the beaten eggs, the soda dissolved in the sour milk, flour, flavoring, and lastly stir into the batter the chocolate dissolved in y2 cup of boiling water. Bake in two layers and put together with white frosting. MRS. AUGR. JORDAN. Devil's Food Cake (Layer). No. 4. 5 eggs beaten separately; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 2 cups flour; 1 small cup grated chocolate (bitter), dissolved in boiling water; 1 level teaspoonful of soda. — 115 — Mix well the beaten yolks, sugar and butter, then add 1 cup milk. Sift soda and flour together and stir into mixture. Add the chocolate and lastly fold in the whites. Bake in layers and put together with chocolate filling. CHOCOLATE FILLING: 1 cup sugar; 3/4 cup sweet milk ; 3 tablespoons grated chocolate (bitter) ; a pinch of salt. Boil until it will cream, then remove from fire and beat hard till it is thick enough to spread. MRS. A. D. STAHL. Pineapple Cake. iy2 cups powdered sugar; y2 cup butter; 1/2 cup sweet milk; y2 cup cornstarch; iy2 cups flour; 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Mix the butter and sugar to cream, add the milk, then add the flour, cornstarch and baking powder well mixed and sifted, last add the whites of 8 eggs beaten. FILLING: 1 can of grated pineapple; 1 cup sugar. Boil to a thick jelly and let cool. Make a boiled icing of 3 cups sugar; 3/4 cup water and the beaten whites of 3 eggs. MRS. SCHWARZ. Graham Cracker Layer Cake. 28 graham crackers, rolled and mixed with 1 teaspoon baking powder; y2 cup butter; 1 cup sugar creamed with butter; 3 eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately; 3/4 cup milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake 15 minutes. MRS. MAX BIERSCHWALE. — 116 — Jam Cake,