The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

The book that taught America to measure. Fannie Farmer's 1896 classic replaced the pinch, the lump and the teacup of the old receipts with the level cup and the level spoon — and then filled eight hundred pages with what to do next.

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Devil's Food Cake II

4 squares unsweetened chocolate 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup sour milk 1/2 cup sweet milk 1 egg Yolk 1 egg 116 cups flour 1/4 cup butter 1½ teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Melt chocolate over hot water, add one-half cup sugar, and gradually sweet milk; then add yolk of egg, and cook gradually sweet milk; then add yolk of egg, and cook until mixture thickens.

Set aside to cool. Cream the butter, add gradually one-half cup sugar, egg well beaten, sour milk, and flour mixed and sifted with soda. Combine mixtures and add vanilla. Bake in shallow cake pans, and put between and on top boiled frosting. Add to filling onefourth cup raisins seeded and cut in pieces, if desired. ¼ cup butter ½ cup sugar Yolks 5 eggs

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