The Bride's Cook Book

A wedding present from the advertisers, San Francisco, c.1918 — a young wife's whole cookery course, paid for by the Blue Bird washer, the Portland Studio and Ghirardelli's chocolate.

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Devil Cake

For the custard part: One cup of grated chocolate, one cup of brown sugar, a half cup of sweet milk, yolk of one egg and a teaspoonful of vanilla. stir all together in a granite saucepan; cook slowly and set away to cool.

For the cake part: One cup brown sugar, two cups flour, a half cup of butter, half cup of sweet milk and two eggs. Cream the butter, sugar and yolks of eggs, add milk, sifted flour and whites of eggs, beaten stiff; beat all together, then stir in the custard, lastly adding one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a very little warm water. Bake in jelly' tins.

The Filling: Two cups of sugar, ten tablespoonfuls of hot water, one-half teaspoonful of cream tartar; boil until thick. Put in thirty-two marshmallows; boil up again, then stir in the beaten whites of three eggs; when almost cool stir in one cupful of chopped walnuts, beat until cold, then spread between layers an inch deep. This is delicious and will keep indefinitely.

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