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Mom's Devils Food Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2/3 cup shortening 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 cups sugar 3/4 cup sour milk
1/2 cup cocoa 1 1/2 tsp soda
2 whole eggs 1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour 1 cup boiling water
1/4 tsp salt
Directions:
Directions:
Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, cream until light. Add cocoa and continue creaming. Add eggs-one at a time, beating well after each one. Sift dry ingredients together 5 times. Add soda & sour milk together and add alternately to cream mixture with flour. Add vanilla and last-add 1 cup of boiling water. Bake in oven in either a bundt pan or round layer pans (prepare the pan or pans by spraying with non stick spray. Bake at 375º til done.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe was hand written by my mom (Euna Guinn) on the back of a letter written to my dad from Paul Tapp (County Extension Agent of Decatur) the letter was dated January 23, 1963.

 

 

 

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