Red Devils Food Cake With Boiled Icing

Submitted by Chef #208121

"A 1935 recipe saved to an old personal homemade cookbook by cutting and pasting the clipping."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 4 tablespoons fat
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄2 cup sour milk
• 1⁄2 cup water
• 2 baking chocolate squares
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• Boiled Frosting

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1⁄2 cup water
• 1 egg white
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla

directions

1. Cut the chcolate into small pieces. Add water and cook for 1 minute. Stir constantly. Cool.
2. Cream fat and sugar. Add the rest of the ingredients including chocolate mix. Beat for 2 minutes. Pour into shallow pan fitted with wax paper.
3. Bake 30 minutes in a moderately slow oven. [approx 325F].
4. Cool and frost.

5. Boiled Frosting:

6. Mix the sugar, vinegar and water. Mix well. Boil gently without stirring until a fine thread forms when a portion is poured from the spoon. Pour at once into beaten egg white. Beat until thick and creamy. Add vanilla and frost your cake.