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Devil’s Food

From Principles of cooking, 1914
Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Principles of cooking (1914) by Emma Conley, page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Devil’s Food. — Cream one half cup of butter, add one cup of sugar, mix thoroughly. . Add the yolks of two eggs, one half cup of sour milk in which one teaspoon of soda has been thoroughly dissolved, two cups of flour, and lastly the whites of two eggs, and one teaspoon of vanilla. Grate three ounces of chocolate, mix with one half cup of sweet milk, one half cup of sugar, and the yolk of one egg

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