Devil's Food Cake

Ingredients

• Butter, 1/2 cup
• Water, 1/2 cup
• Brown sugar, 1y2 cups
• Vanilla extract. 1 teaspoon
• Eggs, 2
• Flour, 2y2 cups
• Cocoa, 2 tablespoons
• Baking powder, 1y2 teaspoons
• Milk, 1 cup

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar and add lightly beaten eggs.

2. 2

   Cook cocoa, milk and water together and cool.

3. 3

   Mix alternately with the flour, baking powder and salt sifted together.

4. 4

   Add flavoring and beat well.

5. 5

   Bake in layer cake pans and put together with white filling and frosting.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mary Jane's cook book (1916) by Mary Jane, Sophie D. Coe, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Water, 2 cups. Salt, y2 teaspoon. Sugar, 2 cups. Cinnamon, 3 teaspoons. Lard, 2 rounding teaspoons. Flour, 3 cups. Raisins, 1 package. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Boil all ingredients except flour and soda for 5 minutes, cool, and add flour sifted with soda. Line pans with greased paper. Bake about 1 hour. Makes 2 loaves. May BeV^_Beverly. EGGLESS GRAHAM CAK1 Butter, 1/2 cup. Brown sug* Graham flour, 2 cups. Cinnamon.; Clove. Ginger. Baking powder, 1 teaspoon. Salt, 1 teaspoon. Milk, 1 cup. Cream butter and sugar, add flour mixed and sifted with bak- ing powder, spices and salt. Stir in milk and bake in a slow oven. 46 CAKE AND FILLINGS LILY CAKE. Butter, i/o cup. Baking powder, 2l/2 teaspoons. Sugar, 1 cup. Egg whites, 3. Milk, y2 cup. Salt, a pinch. Pastry flour, 1% cups. Flavoring. Cream butter and sugar, add milk, baking powder mixed with pastry flour, sifted 4 times before measuring. Fold in egg whites beaten stiff. Add a pinch of salt and flavoring last. Vanilla, lemon or almond may be used. Crank on Cooking, Arlington Heights. DEVIL'S FOOD. Butter, y2 cup. Water, y2 cup. Brown sugar, iy2 cups. Vanilla extract. 1 teaspoon. Eggs, 2. Flour, 2y2 cups. Cocoa, 2 tablespoons. Baking powder, iy2 teaspoons

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