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Devil’s Food Cake I archival citation card

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Devil’s Food Cake I

A classic 1910 sweet built around butter, with Farmer’s original method and page citation.

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What you’ll need

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • Yolks 4 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2⅓ cups flour
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • Whites 4 eggs
  • 2 squares chocolate
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Cream the butter, and add gradually one-half the sugar. Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, and add gradually remaining sugar. Combine mixtures, and add alternately milk and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder; then add whites of eggs beaten stiff, chocolate melted, and vanilla. Bake forty-five to fifty minutes in an angel cake pan. Cover with White Mountain Cream (see p. 528 ).

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