Devil's Food

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking-powder
• 4 eggs
• 2 squares Baker's chocolate
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Separate eggs, beat whites until stiff and yolks until thick.

2. 2

   Cream butter, and add one cup of the sugar.

3. 3

   Add the remaining sugar to the beaten yolks, combine the mixture, and add the milk alternately with the flour and baking-powder mixed; then the beaten whites of the eggs, chocolate melted and vanilla.

4. 4

   Bake forty-five minutes in angel food cake-pan, and cover with white mountain icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Scientific cooking with scientific methods (1911) by Sarah E. Woodworth Craig, page 135. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 eggs. 1 cup sugar. Vo cup butter. 2 cups flour, sifted. y2 cup water. 2 teaspoons baking-powder. Pinch salt. Cream butter, add sugar gradually, beating all the while, then add the water slowly, with two tablespoons of flour. Fold in the well-beaten whites of eggs, then add the remaining two cups of flour with baking- powder mixed with it. Fold until well mixed, and beat hard for a moment, and turn into buttered and CAKES MADE WITH BUTTER. 305 papered pans (square ones preferred), and place in moderate oven and bake until cake leaves side of pans. Put together with opera caramel frosting. As the cara- mel cools and gets hard, mark top with thread where it is to be cut. This prevents the icing from breaking as you cut the cake. Chocolate Cake. 2 eggs. I/O cup milk. 14 cup butter. 2 teaspoons baking-powder. 1^2 cups flour. 2 ounces grated chocolate. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Separate eggs, beat whites until stiff and dry, and add yolks until thick. Cream butter, add sugar slowly, and yolks of the beaten eggs. Add milk and flour mixed with the baking-powder and whites of eggs, then the grated chocolate and vanilla. Bake in buttered and papered pan for thirty-five minutes. Cover with boiled frosting flavored with vanilla. DeviFs Food. Vj cup butter. 214 cups flour. 2 cups sugar. 3 teaspoons baking-powder. 4 eggs. 2 squares Baker's chocolate. 1 cup milk. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Separate eggs, beat whites until stiff and yolks until thick. Cream butter, and add one cup of the sugar. Add the remaining sugar to the beaten yolks, combine the mixture, and add the milk alternately with the flour and baking-powder mixed; then the beaten whites of the eggs, chocolate melted and vanilla. Bake forty- five minutes in angel food cake-pan, and cover with white mountain icing. 306 SCIENTIFIC COOKING. Chocolate Marshmallow Cake. Follow rule for chocolate cake, and as soon as cake is taken from oven, having bottom up, cover with marsh- mallows pulled open with the fingers, but do not pull them entirely apart. Th-e soft inside of the marsh- mallow will adhere to the warm surface of the cake, and pour over all a chocolate frosting flavored with vanilla^. Orange Puffs. Va cup butter. 2 teaspoons baking-powder. 1 cup sugar. Yolks 3 eggs. 2 cups flour. 1 whole egg. 1/3 cup milk. Grated rind V2 orange. Cream butter, add sugar slowly, and beat all the while. When very creamy add milk a little at a time, and the eggs beaten very light without separating, then the grated orange peel, and, lastly, the flour and baking- powder mixed together. Ice tops with orange frosting. Lemon Queens. 3/2 cup butter

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