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Martha washington's devil's food

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Categories: Cakes, Chocolate, Desserts
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Ingredients:
4 ozUnsweetened Chocolate
1 cupSugar
1/2 cupButtermilk, or sour milk
1/2 cupCake Flour, sifted
1 1/2 tspBaking Powder
3/4 tspSoda
1/2 tspSalt
1/2 cupButter, or sbortening
3/4 cupSugar
3 Eggs, well beaten
1 cupButtermilk, or sour milk
1 tspVanilla
Procedures:
1Melt chocolate over boiling water; add 1 cup sugar and ?cup butterrmilk and stir over boiling water until sugar is dissolved.
2Cool.
3Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, and salt and sift together three times.
4Cream butter thoroughly add ?cup sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy.
5Add eggs and beat well.
6Add about ?of flour mixture, mix thoroughly; add chocolate mixture and blend.
7Add remaining flour, altenately with buttermilk, a small amount at a time; beat very thoroughly after each addition.
8Add vanilla.
9Bske in greased 15x9x2- inch pan, in a moderate oven ( 35o °F).
1030 minutes, or until cake is done.
11When cold, trim edges, cut in half crosswise, and put together as a two-layer cake, matching edges carefully.
12Spread tops and sides with martha washington"s fudge frosting (see recipe).
13Or add chopped nut meats to part of frosting and use as filling.
 
 
 
 

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