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Devil’s Food Cake

From The Twin-city housewife, 1920

Serves 5

—Miss P. H. Church.

Presented as published in 1920. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Twin-city housewife (1920) by N.C.) International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons. Whatsoever Circle (Winston-Salem, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Devil’s Food Cake One-half cup butter, one cup sugar, yolks of two eggs, one cup buttermilk into which put one teaspoon soda, two cups flour, two table- spoons cocoa dissolved in one-half cup hot water, whites of two eggs, well-beaten, one heaping teaspoon baking powder

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