Dark Layer or Devil's Food

Ingredients

• Four eggs
• two cups brown sugar
• one-half cup butter
• one half cup sour milk
• one teaspoon soda
• one-half cup boiling water
• one-third bar Baker's chocolate
• two heaping cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add the eggs well beaten, then milk.

2. 2

   Dissolve chocolate in half the boiling water and soda in the other half, add to the batter, lastly add the flour.

3. 3

   Bake in three layers and frost with caramel filling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DARK LAYER OR (Devil’s Food.) Four eggs, two cups brown sugar, one- half cup butter, one half cup sour milk,one teaspoon soda, one-half cup boiling water, one-third bar Baker’s chocolate, two heap¬ ing cups flour, cream, butter and sugar, add the eggs well beaten, then milk, dis- s(dve chocolate in half the boiling water and .soda in the other half, add to the bat¬ ter, la.stly add the flour. Bake in three layers. Frost with caramel filling. Two cups brown sugar, one-third cup cream, butter size of an egg, boil until it threads from the spoon, beat until nearly C(M)1, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and on top. (Very fine.) Mrs. L. K. Hem. DARK AND WHITE LAYER CAKE. One cup butter, two cups sugar, four cups flour, three eggs, three tea.sp(K)us baking powder, one cup water. Take half the batter grate in chocolate, when baked, place alternate dark and white layers, cover with frosting, Mary Ream. DARK LAYER CAKE NO. 1. One cup mola.sses, one-half cup sugar, one half cup lard or butter, one-half cup butter

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