Devil Food Cake No. 2

Name: Devil Food Cake No. 2
Ingredients: 2 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 3 egg yolks; 1 whole egg; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 3 cups flour; 1/2 teaspoon soda; 1 cup buttermilk; 4 squares baking chocolate; 1/2 cup water

From The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book, 1948

Caramel Icing: 2 cups brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup water. Boil until mixture threads when dropping from spoon. Beat egg whites stiff, add 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and pour over egg whites. Beat until creamy.

Presented as published in 1948. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a/2 teaspoon soda mixed with 4 cups flour l1/? cup apple sauce 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 lb. raisins 1V> cup nut meats Mix as any other fruit cake, adding apple sauce last instead of milk. Flour, raisins and nuts added last. Mrs. C. /. Scruggs FUDGE CAKE 1 cup sugar 2 egg yolks Y-& cup butter 2 squares chocolate 1 cup flour 1 cup pecan meats Va cup sweet milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream sugar and butter thoroughly. Beat in egg yolks. Add flour and milk alternately. Add melted chocolate and the egg whites which have been stiffly beaten. Bake in oven 350 degrees for 45 minutes to one hour. Cover with chocolate cream frosting. — Chocolate Cream Frosting — 1 pkg Philadelphia cream cheese 1/8 teaspoon salt Yi cup sweet milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 cups confection sugar 3 squares melted chocolate Blend cheese ^vith milk and add sugar which has been well sifted. Add salt and vanilla and melted chocolate and beat until smooth. Mrs. R. C. Laughlin 34 QUICK DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE 1 egg, V2 cup cocoa, V2 cup butter, IV2 cup flour, pinch of salt, V2 CUP sour milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup sugar, l/z cup hot water. Put in mixing- bowl in the order given and heat with rotary egg beater until thoroughly mixed. Bake in layer cake pans or as cup cakes. Miss Margaret Tyson Jones DEVIL FOOD CAKE NO. 2 2 cups sugar Pinch of salt 1 cup butter 3 egg yolks and 1 whole eug 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 cups flour y2 teaspoon soda 1 cup buttermilk Measure all in mixing bowl and mix with electric mixer a tew minutes. Melt 4 squares baking chocolate

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