Black Cake with Prune Filling

Ingredients

• 1.5 cupfuls sugar
• 0.5 teaspoonful baking soda
• 0.5 teaspoonful salt
• 2 cupfuls flour
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• 0.5 cupful Crisco
• 0.5 teaspoonful vanilla extract
• 1 cupful milk
• 1 cake chocolate
• 1 cupful sugar
• 0.5 cupful stoned stewed prunes
• 0.5 cupful boiling water
• 0.5 cupful blanched chopped almonds
• 1 white of egg

Method

1. 1

   For cake, beat 1 egg in double boiler, add 0.5 cupful milk, 0.5 cupful sugar and chocolate; mix well and cook until it thickens.

2. 2

   Cool and set aside.

3. 3

   Cream Crisco with remainder of sugar, add salt, eggs well beaten, soda mixed with remainder of milk, flour, baking powder and vanilla.

4. 4

   Mix well and add chocolate paste, and divide into two Criscoed and floured layer cake tins.

5. 5

   Bake twenty minutes in moderate oven.

6. 6

   For filling, boil sugar and water together without stirring until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F., then pour it over the beaten white of egg, beating all the time.

7. 7

   Now add chopped prunes and almonds and beat well.

8. 8

   Put between layers of cake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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