Devil's Food
From The Memorial Hall cook book, 1919
Recipe by Mrs. W. F. Seibert.
Presented as published in 1919. 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 Memorial Hall cook book (1919) by Willow Grove Memorial Hall (Willow Grove, Pa.), page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Devil's Food One and one-half cups sugar, 3 tblspns. butter, 2 ounces melted chocolate, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk (slightly warmed), IY2 cups sifted flour, 2 tspns. Rumford baking powder. Beat sugar and butter to a cream. Drop eggs in, one at a time, whole. Beat until smooth. Bake in layers; ice with boiled icing. FELIN'S PORK PRODUCTS NOW IS THE TIME — ASK FOR AND GET FELIN'S TASTY o SPICY SAUSAGE Cx SCRAPPLE "Have Your Shoes Mended by the Man Who Knows How" ALBERTPS WILLOW GROVE SHOE HOSPITAL OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE, WILLOW GROVE, PA. REASONABLE PRICES COMPLIMENTS OF MINERAL SPRINGS INN WILLOW GROVE, PA. 77 J. DYRE MOYER, York Road, Willow Grove All kinds of Lumber, Building Material, Coal and Feed — Bell Phone, 103 Boiled Icing One cup granulated sugar, V± cup water, white of 1 egg. Boil sugar and water until it will run to a string when dropped from the ispoon. Beat white of egg until stiff, and into it beat the syrup. Flavor with vanilla and beat until cold and smooth. — Mrs. George W. Hellings. DeviPs Food Two cups of sugar creamed with a half cup of butter; add two arell-beaten eggs; half cup sour milk with small teaspoon soda dis- solved in it; two teaspoons of vanilla; two and two-thirds cups of flour. Stir half cup of chocolate and a half cup boiling water into a paste, cool and pour into the batter. Bake in moderate oven. — Mrs. Geo. Nice. Devil's Food Part One: 1 cup of brown sugar, V2 cup of butter, 1 cup of sweet milk, yolks of 2 eggs. Part Two: 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 scant cup of grated choco- late, V2 cup of sweet milk. Melt on back of stove (not boil), cool; stir in first mixture and add 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. baking soda, and the egg whites. Caramel Icing One and one-half cups of brown sugar, % cup of sweet cream, butter the size of an egg. Boil until it can be formed in ball, when IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO BUILD I will guarantee you a fair-priced house, constructed of good material, by honest labor. GEORGE BLILIE, Builder HATBORO, PA. Buy Clothes Anywhere and Save SO Per Cent As with old shoes, you become attached to an old suit, but time robs it of its good appearance, and you cannot wear it indefinitely. But appearances can be maintained fully twice as long, with intelligent Herzog care. Look better, and pay much less for clothes by having them cleaned here regularly. The cost is negligible. We deliver in your neighborhood I. HERZOG & CO., Cleaners and Dyers Germantown 03-91 5904 GERMANTOWN AVE. 78 See that the name K-N-O-X is on each package of gelatine you buy. dropped in cold water. Beat well after boiling. — Mrs. Edgar M. Davenport. Devil's Food One-third cup sugar, % cup cocoa, % cup milk. Put on the stove to melt (do not let boil), and when cool, add to the following: 1 cup sugar V2 cup butter, V2 cup sweet milk, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 cups flour, flavoring (vanilla) to taste
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