Devils Food Cake

Ingredients

• 1% cupfuls sugar
• 2 cupfuls flour
• 1% cupfuls milk
• ¥% cupful Crisco
• ¥% cake chocolate
• 1 teaspoonful baking soda
• 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water
• 2 eggs
• ¥ teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   Put % cupful of sugar into small saucepan, add chocolate and 1 cupful milk.

2. 2

   Put on stove and stir till it boils five minutes, stirring now and then.

3. 3

   Remove from fire, add vanilla and set aside to cool.

4. 4

   Beat Crisco and remainder of sugar to light cream, then add eggs well beaten and beat two minutes.

5. 5

   Now add remainder of milk, soda dissolved in boiling water, flour, salt, and chocolate mixture.

6. 6

   Mix carefully and divide into two large greased and floured layer tins and bake in moderate oven twenty-five minutes.

7. 7

   Turn to cool and put together with boiled frosting.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Devils Food Cake 1% cupfuls sugar 2 cupfuls flour 1% cupfuls milk ¥% cupful Crisco ¥% cake chocolate 1 teaspoonful baking soda 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla extract 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water 2 eggs Boiled frosting ¥ teaspoonful salt

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