Didn't someone want cake?
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"Bakers Best Chocolate Recipes." Copyright, 1932.
RED DEVIL'S FOOD
(2 eggs)
1-1/2 cups sifted Cake Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
4 tbls butter or other shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup thick sour milk
1/2 cup boiling water
1 square Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate, melted
1 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla
Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, and salt, and sift together three times. Cream butter, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs. Beat mixture vigorously. Add flour and sour milk alternately, a small amount at a time. Pour the boiling water into the melted chocolate, mix quickly. Add soda to chocolate and stir until thick. Cool slightly before adding to cake batter. Mix thoroughly. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased 9-inch layer pans in moderate over (350F) 25 minutes. To make three 10-inch layers, double recipe. Cover with Marshmallow Frosting - which is:
SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING W/MARSHMALLOWS
1 egg white, unbeaten
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 tbls cold water
1-1/2 tsp light corn syrup
1 tsp vanilla
Put egg whites, sugar, water and corn syrup in upper part of double boiler. Beat with rotary egg beater until thoroughly mixed. Place over rapidly boiling water, beat constantly with rotary beater, and cook for 7 minutes or until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from heat, add vanilla, and one cup of quartered marshmallows, and beat until thick enough to spread. Makes enough frosting to cover two 9-inch layers.
I think you could use buttermilk in place of the sour milk these days. 9_9
I have a bunch of really old "cookbooks" from various and sundry companies - even a diet book from Knox gelatine from the '50s and a little mushroom cookbook from the 70's. Some of them came with the new-fangled refrigerators during the mid '40s - the illustrations are too cute for their own good.
Almost ten. Time for sleeping. If not sleeping, GameBoy. Jim is watching Blue Gender - bugs. Screaming. More bugs.
Oh, and I saw a mouse scoot into the bushes outside today. Great. Guess the living is REALLY easy in the summertime....
"Bakers Best Chocolate Recipes." Copyright, 1932.
RED DEVIL'S FOOD
(2 eggs)
1-1/2 cups sifted Cake Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
4 tbls butter or other shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup thick sour milk
1/2 cup boiling water
1 square Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate, melted
1 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla
Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, and salt, and sift together three times. Cream butter, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs. Beat mixture vigorously. Add flour and sour milk alternately, a small amount at a time. Pour the boiling water into the melted chocolate, mix quickly. Add soda to chocolate and stir until thick. Cool slightly before adding to cake batter. Mix thoroughly. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased 9-inch layer pans in moderate over (350F) 25 minutes. To make three 10-inch layers, double recipe. Cover with Marshmallow Frosting - which is:
SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING W/MARSHMALLOWS
1 egg white, unbeaten
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 tbls cold water
1-1/2 tsp light corn syrup
1 tsp vanilla
Put egg whites, sugar, water and corn syrup in upper part of double boiler. Beat with rotary egg beater until thoroughly mixed. Place over rapidly boiling water, beat constantly with rotary beater, and cook for 7 minutes or until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from heat, add vanilla, and one cup of quartered marshmallows, and beat until thick enough to spread. Makes enough frosting to cover two 9-inch layers.
I think you could use buttermilk in place of the sour milk these days. 9_9
I have a bunch of really old "cookbooks" from various and sundry companies - even a diet book from Knox gelatine from the '50s and a little mushroom cookbook from the 70's. Some of them came with the new-fangled refrigerators during the mid '40s - the illustrations are too cute for their own good.
Almost ten. Time for sleeping. If not sleeping, GameBoy. Jim is watching Blue Gender - bugs. Screaming. More bugs.
Oh, and I saw a mouse scoot into the bushes outside today. Great. Guess the living is REALLY easy in the summertime....
