Devil's Food Cake No. 3

Ingredients

• y2 cup butter
• iy2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• y2 cup sour milk
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 squares of chocolate

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar; add the beaten eggs, the soda dissolved in the same milk, flour, flavoring, and lastly stir into the batter the chocolate dissolved in y2 cup of boiling water.

2. 2

   Bake in two layers and put together with white frosting.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Devil's Food Cake. No. 2. 2 cupfuls brown or white sugar; y2 cup butter; Y2 cup lard; 2 eggs; 1 cup buttermilk; 3 cups flour; iy2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon; y2 teaspoon allspice; y2 cake of ground chocolate, with enough hot water to make y2 cup; y2 teaspoon soda. Mix all together and bake in four layers. Put together with cooked icing. MRS. ALVIN STRIEGLER. Devil's Food Cake. No. 3. y2 cup butter; iy2 cups sugar; 2 eggs; y2 cup sour milk; 1 teaspoon soda; 2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 2 squares of chocolate

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