Devils' Food

The Institute Cookbook by Helen Cramp, 1913
Ingredients Instructions
Note: This recipe doesn't call for vanilla in the ingredients, although it mentions vanilla in the instructions.
Number of servings unknown
2 oz. unsweetened chocolate Melt the chocolate with half the milk and the yolks of two eggs over hot water and cook until a thick custard is formed. Cream the butter and sugar; add the remaining eggs, the flour and the baking powder, sifted, the milk, vanilla [see note] and chocolate custard after it has cooled. Bake in layers and cover with boiled white frosting. Or cut out the centers of the two upper layers and fill with whipped cream to which swugar, cherries and nuts have been added. Put the cream between the layers, also, and ice the top.
Yolks of 4 eggs
3/4 c. milk
Whites of 2 eggs
1 1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter
1 3/4 c. flour
1 t. baking powder
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