Didn't someone want cake?

[kyburg]

Okay.

"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.

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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....

Comments

[pixievixen.livejournal.com]

heehee.... something in that reminded me of these... the knox diet i guess...

Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

If you ever run across any really old canning recipes, please holler...I want 'em. Old books on farming and homesteading - those for people who expected to do everything themselves, from planting the seed to preserving the harvest - are real prizes. I have even bought them from ebay, at times.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

You were supposed to come down here sometime, weren't you? I'll share what I've got - no surprise I have them, right? *grins*

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

I don't think we're coming down until considerably later in the year, due to financial hassles. (We don't have the money, honestly.) We may now be down sometime in mid-December, but I don't know...it may have to wait until next year, after Charles is out of school for good.

[musicalchaos.livejournal.com]

Game Boy? Gameboygameboygameboygameboy! Just out of curiosity, what types of games do you play?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Incorrigible.

Pokemon Sapphire, what else? I've also got Zoocube rolling around here someplace and I've played Breath of Fire II (and Jim played and replayed that one until I hid the cartridge...baka!)

And yes, I ordered the Pokemon Pinball game this week. *sweatdrop* I'm such a geek.

[musicalchaos.livejournal.com]

I never got into the latter pokemon games, always enjoyed the original though.. *chuckle* I understand his response to that one though... I have it for the old SNES and recently went back to playing it again... Tremendous fun, though I was irked the first time I went through it since I had rented it, and when I went to get it again next week, someone else had not only rented it, but they'd erased my character! Oi... Flashbacks, what fun *grin*... Ahhh, the joys of geekdom. "And blessed be the Geeks, for they shall internet the Earth!"