Devil's Food Cake

2 cups granulated sugar, 4 eggs, 2 squares Baker's chocolate (grated), 3 tsp. baking powder, 2 cups flour, 3/4 cup Crisco, 1 cup hot mashed potatoes, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 cup milk, 1 cup nut meats.

Cream together sugar and Crisco. Add the beaten yolks of the eggs. Stir in the mashed potatoes, grated chocolate and nut meats. Sift together the flour, nutmeg and cinnamon and stir in alternately with the milk. Beat thoroughly and fold in the beaten whites of eggs. Makes a large cake. - Mrs. Emil Nelson.

Devil's Food Cake

1 cup sugar, 2 tbsp. shortening, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup milk, (sweet or sour), 4 tsp. cocoa, 1/2 cup boiling water, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. vanilla.

Cream the butter and the sugar, add eggs and milk, in which soda has been dissolved. Add the baking powder to the flour and mix.

Dissolve cocoa in boiling water and add to the above mixture. Flavor with vanilla. Bake in layers or flat pan. Top with boiled icing.

- Mrs. Hunter Nethery.

Devil's Food Cake

1 cup sugar and 2 tbsp. butter (creamed well), 1 egg, (beaten very light), 2 tbsp. cocoa, 1 cup sour milk in which 1 tsp. soda has been dissolved, 1 1/2 cups flour sifted with 1 tsp. Royal Baking Powder, 1 tsp. vanilla. Beat thoroughly and bake in 2 layers.

- Mrs. Cyrus Good.

Economical Devil's Food Cake

Break 1 egg into dish, add 1 cup sugar, 1 tbsp. butter, 2 tbsp. cocoa, 1 tsp. soda, 1/4 tsp. salt and stir well. Then add 1 cup sour milk, 1 1/2 cups flour and flavor with vanilla.

Icing

1 egg, 1 cup sugar, 1 tbsp. cocoa, 1/2 tbsp. butter, 1/2 cup milk.

Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Beat until cool and spread over cake. - Mrs. G. C. Pierce.

Devil's Food Cake

1 cup sugar, 1 tbsp. butter, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. soda (in milk), 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 square chocolate (melted).

Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs and cream again. Stir in the milk and flour alternately. Add the chocolate, pour into buttered pans and bake in moderate oven.

Filling

1 cup raisins, chopped fine, 1 small cup sugar, 1/2 cup water. Cook until thick. Then add 1/2 cup walnuts (chopped fine). Spread between layers and top with powd. sugar and butter icing.

- Mrs. Bliss Langill.

Poor Man's Devil's Food Cake

1 egg, 1 cup light brown sugar, 1 heaping tbsp. butter, salt, 1 cup sour milk, in which 1 level tsp. soda has been dissolved, 2 cups flour sifted with 2 tsp. baking powder, 1/4 cake Baker's bitter chocolate cooked until thick in a little water.

Cream butter and sugar, and well-beaten eggs, milk, flour and chocolate. - Mrs. G. C. Carnright.

An Egg-Less, Butterless, Devil's Food Cake

Cream 1 1/2 cups of brown sugar and 1/2 cup of lard. Add 1/2 cup of grated chocolate, dissolved in 1/2 cup of boiling water, and 1 tsp. of soda in 1/2 cup of sour milk.

Sift together 13/4 cups of flour, 1/2 cup of cornstarch, 1/2 tsp. each of cinnamon and cloves. Add to creamed mixture and bake.

- Mrs. C. A. Klein.