Devil's Food

Ingredients

• Melt one-fifth of a cake of bitter chocolate
• add i.'o cup of milk
• a small cup of sugar
• add the yolk of 1 egg
• add y^ teaspoonful of vanilla
• cream lo cu) (scant) of butter
• add 1 cup of sugar
• break in 1 egg and beat until light
• add V> cup of cold water
• add v* full tups of Dousnian's J-?(,'st Patent (Iduw

Method

1. 1

   Bake in a Jewel Range in a loaf and ice with plain icing.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 105. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Devil's Food. One cup brown sugar, yolks 3 eggs, i/v. cup butter, y^ cup hot water (scant). 3 cups Dousman's Best Patent flour, 2 teaspoonfuls leaking powder, % cup sweet milk. Second part: One cup grated chocolate. 1 cup brown sugar, i/o cup sweet milk. Set on the back of the stove until dissolved and let come to a boil. When cool, stir into first part. Bake in a Jewel Rang(>. Euphemia Ham, Devil's Food. Two S(juares chocolate. l]> cup milk, tg cu\) sugar; nu'lt all together. Three eggs (save whites of two), 1 cup sugar, I/2 cup butttu", U, cup milk, 2 cups Dous- man's Best Patent flour, small teaspoon soda. Add first part to this when cool. Bake in a Jewel Range. j\Irs. P. J. Baker. Devil's Food. Cream, 14 cup butter, fi/o cups sugar, yolks of four eggs stirred in, but not beaten; 14 cake or 2 squares of bitter chocolate melted in 5 tablespoons of boiling water; 14 cup milk and 1% cups of Dousman's Best Patent flour mixed with one heaping teaspoon baking powder. Add heaten whites of 4 eggs. Bake in three layers or two long square layers in a Jewel Range. Devil's Food. Four squares of bitter chocolate, to c\ip sweet milk and the yolk of 1 egg, heated until smooth, stirring constantly. When cold add to this i-. cup butter and IM.' cups sugar (beaten to a cream), I/2 cup sweet milk, 2 eggs, 2 cups Dousman's Best Patent flour and 1 level teaspoon soda dissolved in the milk. This is much richer if you use yolks in place of the whole eggs. Bake in a Jewel Range. Mrs. Atwell. Devil's Food. Melt one-fifth of a cake of bitter chocolate, add i.'o cup of milk, a small cup of sugar; when cooked smooth add the yolk of 1 egg: cook until thick; remove fi'om the fire and add y^ teaspoonful of vanilla. For the cake, cream lo cu]) (scant) of butter; add 1 c\ip of sugar and beat thoroughly; break in 1 egg and beat until light, then add another egg and beat; add V> cup of cold water, the chocolate mixture, and b^rPb:RIOR COOK BOOK l.V) l)(.'t'ure .siirrjng add v* full tups <>f Dousnian's J-?(,'st Patent (Idu

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