Devil's Food Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• let. soda
• 1 t.. salt
• 1% lb. butter
• 1 t. vanilla
• 14% cups sugar
• 2 eggs unbeaten
• 3 sq. chocolate
• 1 cup sweet milk

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, measure, add soda and salt and sift three times.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar.

3. 3

   Add eggs one at a time.

4. 4

   Add chocolate that has been melted in a double boiler and cooled.

5. 5

   Add flour and milk alternately, beating after each addition until smooth.

6. 6

   Add vanilla.

7. 7

   Bake in moderate oven until well done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wilkes County Home Demonstration Club cook book (1947) by N.C.) Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs (Wilkes County, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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