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Devils Food Cake

2 teaspoonfuls vanilla extract 2 eggs 2 cupfuls flour ½ cupful Crisco 1 teaspoonful baking soda 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water Boiled frosting 1/2 teaspoonful salt Put 1/2 cupful of sugar into small saucepan, add chocolate and 1 cupful milk. Put on stove and stir till it boils five minutes, stirring now and then. Remove from fire, add vanilla and set aside to cool. Beat Crisco and remainder of sugar to light cream, then add eggs well beaten and beat two minutes. Now add remainder of milk, soda dissolved in boiling water, flour, salt, and chocolate mixture. Mix carefully and divide into two large greased and floured layer tins and bake in moderate oven twentyfive minutes. Turn to cool and put together with boiled frosting. Sufficient for two large layers. 2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful milk 5 eggs 3 cupfuls flour