Devil Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups sugar
• one-half cup butter
• two eggs
• one teaspoonful soda
• one-half cup sour milk
• two even cups flour
• one-half cake Baker's chocolate
• one cup boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Pour boiling water over chocolate and let stand while making cake.

2. 2

   Bake in layers or loaf and frost with white frosting.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-half cake Baker's chocolate dissolved in one-half cup boil- ing water. Stir in the last thing while hot. BURNT SUGAR CAKE. Mrs. L. J. Menold, Princeton, HI. For the burnt sugar, put one cup sugar in granite pan ; let melt, stirring all the time ; let burn down until it smokes good, remove from fire, ana add one cup boiling water and set over fire again and let boil until it is a syrup. Put in pan. Will flavor several cakes. L'se Mrs. Bell's recipe for caramel cake, adding four tablespoons of the burnt sugar and bake in one loaf. CHOCOLATE SPOXGE CAKE. Mrs. Russell Graham. Yolk of one egg, saving white for icing, one-fourth Baker's chocolate, one-half cup cold water, mix all to- gether and cook in a double cooker until it thickens, one cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, one-half cup boiling water, one and one-half cup flour, one teaspoon of vanilla, then add first mixture, at last add one tea- spoon soda dissolved in boiling water. Bake in mod- erate oven. Use boiled icing. COFFEE CAKE. Mrs. Henry Staat, Roseville. One cup of butter, one cup of sugar, two eggs, one cup coffee, one cup of molasses, one teaspoon soda in the molasses, one teaspoon cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, one cup chopped raisins, one-half cup figs, flour enough to thicken. COFFEE CAKE. Miss Carrie S. Wallace. One cup butter, one cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup coffee (liquid), four cups flour, three eggs, one teaspoon soda^ two teaspoons cloves, two tea- CAKES 171 spoons cinnamon, one pound chopped raisins, two teaspoons mace or one of nutmeg. COFFEE OR SPICE CAKE. Mrs. C. M. Johnson. Miss Minnie Babcock. One cup melted butter, two cups brown sugar, one cup cold coffee, four cups flour, two eggs, two heaping teaspoons baking powder, one cup seeded raisins, cit- ron, dates, lemon peel, spices. Bake in slow oven. . ' CORNSTARCH CAKE. Mrs. O. Blackburn. Mrs. Lewis Duke. One and one-half cups white sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup milk, one-half cup cornstarch, whites of seven eggs, one and one-half cup flour, one heaping teaspoonful baking powder. Season to taste. Bake in layers or loaf. CRACKER CAKE WITHOUT FLOUR. Mrs. W. Q. Bell. Ten eggs, two cups of sugar, two teaspoons cinna- mon juice and a rind of a lemon, two bars chocolate, half pound dates cut fine, dredge with a little flour,, eleven soda crackers rolled fine. Bake in a moderate, oven. CREAM CAKE. Mrs. H. S. Brown. Break two eggs in a cup, finish filiing with cream, add one cup sugar, two cups of flour, two teaspoons baking powder, a pinch of salt. Flavoring to suit. Bake in lavers. J Filling: — One cup of cream (whipped), one cup of sugar. SOUR CREAM CAKE. M. B. Sexton. Two eggs, beat yolks with one cup of sugar, add one cup of thick sour cream, two cups flour, one-half tea- 172 CAKES spoon soda, one scant teaspoon baking powder, spices or chocolate, and last the beaten whites of the eggs. PLAIN CUP CAKE. Mrs. W. S. Holliday. One cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, one egg, one heaping tablespoon butter, two cups flour, two tea- spoons baking powder. Flavor to suit. DELICATE CAKE. Mrs. H. Ewing. One pound flour, one pound sugar, haif pound but- ter, whites sixteen eggs. Or. a good one-half pound butter, one pound flour, one pound sugar, one cup sweet milk, whites fourteen eggs, three teaspoons baking powder. Flavor with lemon and vanilla. DELICATE CAKE. Mrs. Wm, McKinley. One cup cornstarch, one cup butter, two cups white sugar, one cup sweet milk, the whites of seven eggs. Rub butter and sugar to a cream, mix one teaspoonful cream tartar with the flour and cornstarch, one-half teaspoonful soda with the sweet milk, add the milk and soda to the sugar and butter, next the flour, then the whites of eggs. Flavor to taste. DELICATE CAKE. Mrs. W. C. Tubbs. One and one-half cup white granulated sugar, one- half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, whites six eggs, two and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder. Bake in two layers, use either white or cho- colate frosting. DEVIL CAKE. Miss Maude Brunei". Mrs. Chas. H. Cable. Berwick. Two cups sugar (Tight brown or white), one-half cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful soda, one-half cup sour milk, two even cups flour, one-haif cake CAKES 173 Baker's chocolate, one cup boiling water

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