Filling for Devil's Food Cake (Alternate)

Ingredients

• Two cups white sugar
• one-half cup water

Method

1. 1

   Let it cook until it threads.

2. 2

   Whites of two eggs well-beaten and pour syrup into the whites and beat until stiff.

3. 3

   Chopped nuts or raisins may be added to this.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-half cup water, one-half cup cream, one square chocolate. Moisten chocolate over boiling water and add sugar and water. Boil until proper consistency and beat until cool. — Mrs. M. F. Markham. PEINCE OF WALES CAKE. Dark part: Yolks three eggs, three fourths cups butter, two cups flour, one cup raisins, one cup currants or cherries, one cup brown sugar, one-half cup milk, one tablespoon molasses, one teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg, one teaspoon Eoyal Baking Powder. Light part : one cup white sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one and one-half cup flour, one half cup corn starch, whites of three eggs, one teaspoon Eoyal Baking Powder. Cream the butter and sugar, then eggs and milk, add fruit, and last the flour. — Mrs. J. L. Whitmore. FILLING FOR PEINCE OF WALES CAKE. Two cups brown sugar, two- thirds cups water. Cook until it makes a soft ball. Pour upon beaten white? of two eggs. Add one-eighth pound crushed nuts. — Mrs. J. L. Whitmore. DAEK FEUIT CAKE, Cream one pound of sugar, one pound of butter until light, then add ten well-beaten eggs, and one pound of flour, reserving some of it to flour the fruit. Spice the batter with nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Two pounds raisins, two pounds currants, one pound citron, one pound English Aval- nuts, one pound of figs. Flour the fruit, stir into the batter, then add one cupful cold water into which one teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved. The water prevents its being dry. — Mrs. A. G. Elliott. DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE. Two eggs, tAvo cups brown sugar, one half cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, one-half cup hot water, one-third cake of Baker 's Chocolate, two cups flour, one teaspoonful soda. Cream the butter and the sugar, add eggs and beat ; add milk and part of flour. Dissolve chocolate in hot water, put into this the soda, then put in the batter with rest of flour. — Mrs. J. A. Snipes. FILLING FOE DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE. Two cups Avhite suga

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.