[Sca-cooks] Red Velvet Cake

[M+D: Mary and Doug Piero Carey]

Grandma made Red Velvet Cake when I was very young.  1959?1960?  I 
remember my parents and their sibs laughing about an incident in which 
her kitchen walls got speckled with the batter.  This seems to have 
predated my existence, which places the cake in Northeast Ohio no later 
than 1955.

Paste food coloring was not generally available around here in those days, 
I'm sure Grandma used McCormick's.  I'm sure you could reduce the 
amount considerably if you used paste.  Whether that would reduce your 
chemical intake, I don't know.

I would be quite surprised if a thorough search of "women's magazines" 
from about 1945 to 1960 didn't turn this recipe up.  However, I definitely 
don't have time for it right now.

Mary, the not-that-fanatical periodicals person

"I am NOT a rabid feminist!. I had my shots last year.