Demon's Food Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• y^ cup butter
• y^ cup grated chocolate
• J^ cup hot water
• ^ cup sour milk
• 2 eggs
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon of soda
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake in layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 371. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Y^ cup butter to a cream; add gradually IJ/2 cups sugar, yolks of 2 eggs, 1 cup watpr and 2 cups of flour. Beat constantly for 5 minutes 3 tablespoons burnt sugar, 1 of vanilla, Yi cup flour. Stir carefully 2 teaspoons of baking powder and the w^ell-beaten whites of 2 eggs. — Mrs. Frederic Sharp, 700 S. 3rd Ave., Maywood, 111. BUTTER DOUGH.— J^ cup butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, mixed with \Y2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon water, yolk of 1 t%^. Cut the dough into strips, place apples between them. Fry in lard, and sprinkle with sugar. — Mrs. Klug, 25 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111. CHECKERBOARD LAYER CAKE.— Light part: cream to- gether 1 cup white sugar, Y^ cup butter and whites of 3 eggs; add Y2. cup milk. 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 2 cups flour, lemon or vanilla, Dark part: cream together J^ cup brown COOK COUNTY COOK BOOK 543 sugar, Yi cup molasses, and ^ cup butter; add Y^ cup milk, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon each of cloves and nutmeg, 2 cups flour. This will make 3 layers. Arrange the batter on tins in alternate rows of dark and light, so that when the cake is cut it will resemble a checkerboard.^ — Mrs. C. C. Cash, Hubbard Woods, 111. CHERRY CAKE.— Beat together 1 cup brown sugar, ^ cup butter, 1 cup cherry preserves, without pits, 2 eggs; add 1 table- spoon sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, J4 tea- spoon nutmeg, 2 heaping cups flour. — Mrs. Ruth McLelland, Qak Park, 111. CHOCOLATE CAKE.— To Y^ cup chocolate, grated, add ^ cup sweet milk and J/^ cup brown sugar. Boil all together until thick as cream, and let cool; add 1 cup brown sugar, J/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, y^ cup milk, vanilla flavoring. Mix well, beat in the boiled mixture, add 2 cups of flour, sifted with a heaping teaspoon of baking powder. Bake in layers, and put together with chocolate filling. — Mrs. Dallas Dillon, Forest Park, 111. CIDER CAKE. — 5 cups flour. Work 1 cup butter to a cream, beat 5 eggs and 3 cups sugar together; pour 2 cups cider, in which 2 teaspoons of soda are dissolved, on 2 cups flour; add spice to taste; when the oven is ready mix all together, and bake. — Mrs. Leonard Lambert, Franklin Park, 111. COFFEE CAKE!- 3 teacups of light bread sponge, ^ teacup of sugar, butter size of an ^^^. Let rise all day; at night roll thin and put into pans. In the morning spread with butter, and sprin- kle sugar and cinnamon on top. Bake in slow oven. — Mrs. A. Mor- gan, 429 19th Ave., Maywood, 111. COLD WATER CAKE.— Cream together Va cup butter, or any shortening^ and 1 cup sugar; add ^ cup cold water, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons soda in the flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup fruit, Y2 teaspoon cloves, Y2 teaspoon allspice, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Bake in a slow oven. — Mrs. C. A. Lovell, Gross Point, 111. CORN STARCH CAKE.— ^ cup sweet milk. Cream 1 cup butter and Y\ lb. sugar together, mix ^ cup corn starch with milk and add, then add whites of 4 eggs, beaten stiflf; next 1 cup flour, 544 CAKE in which 2 teaspoons of baking powder has been sifted, add va- nilla or lemon flavoring, put in well-greased mould and bake. If after greasing the cake tin a little flour is dusted over it, it will prevent the cake from sticking to tin. — Mrs. Max Aiken, Hubbard Woods, 111. DARK SECRET.— 1 cup sugar, 1 cup dates, cut fine, 1 cup walnuts, chopped, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon flour. Bake in coffee cake tins. When cake is cold break into pieces, cover with 1 sliced banana and 1 orange. Put whipped cream over all. — Mrs. Klug, 25 N\ 5th Ave., M'aywood, 111. DEMON'S FOOD CAKE.— 2 cups brown sugar, y^ cup but- ter, y2 cup grated chocolate, J^ cup hot water. Pour over ^ cup sour milk, 2 eggs, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon of baking powder

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