Devil's Food Cake

1 cup of sugar,

2 eggs,

½ teaspoon baking soda, 2 cups of flour,

½ cup of butter,

1 cup of milk,

½ cup of grated chocolate,

1 teaspoon of baking powder.

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten yolks of eggs, add soda dissolved in milk, melt chocolate with hot water, add flour with baking powder, beat well, lastly adding whites of eggs well beaten. - Mrs. John Hausam.

Devil's Food Cake

Three-fourths cup grated chocolate, yolk 1 egg, ½ cup sweet milk. Mix these together and set in basin of hot water to boil. Let boil but not get too stiff. When cool add ½ sweet milk, 1 cup sugar, 1 flat teaspoon soda, 1 rounding cup flour, and a teaspoon vanilla. Beat and bake slowly.

Icing

One cup sugar, ¼ cup water. Let boil until it threads and add white of egg, beaten stiff. Beat until creamy. A little vinegar or tartaric acid keeps it from hardening. - Mrs. Chas. Todhunter.

Devil's Food Cake

Part one: ½ cup sweet milk, yolk of one egg, 2 squares bitter chocolate. Cook while hot, add tablespoon butter. Part two: 1 cup sugar, ½ cup sour milk, teaspoonful baking soda scant, 1 egg, 1½ cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, add dark part and beat well. Filling: - 1 cup of seeded raisins, chopped fine, 1 cup water, two-thirds cup sugar, add the yolk of 1 egg, beaten, boil until thickens and flavor with lemon.

Mrs. Chas. Gerber.