Devil’s Food Cake II
Ingredients
- 4 squares Baker’s chocolate
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup sweet milk
- Yolk 1 egg
- ¼ cup butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup sour milk
- 1 egg
- 1⅛ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon soda
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
Steps
- Melt chocolate over hot water, add one-half cup sugar, and gradually sweet milk; then add yolk of egg, and cook until mixture thickens. Set aside to cool. Cream the butter, add gradually one-half cup sugar, egg well beaten, sour milk, and flour mixed and sifted with soda. Combine mixtures and add vanilla. Bake in shallow cake pans, and put between and on top boiled frosting. Add to filling one-fourth cup raisins seeded and cut in pieces, if desired.
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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.