ract
1/3 cake chocolate

For Filling

1 cupful sugar
1/3 cupful boiling water
1 white of egg
1/2 cupful stoned stewed prunes
1/3 cupful blanched chopped almonds

_For cake._ Beat 1 egg in double boiler, add 1/2 cupful milk, 1/2
cupful sugar and chocolate; mix well and cook until it thickens. Cool
and set aside. Cream Crisco with remainder of sugar, add salt, eggs
well beaten, soda mixed with remainder of milk, flour, baking powder
and vanilla. Mix well and add chocolate paste, and divide into two
Criscoed and floured layer cake tins. Bake twenty minutes in moderate
oven.

_For filling._ Boil sugar and water together without stirring until it
forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240 deg. F., then pour it
over the beaten white of egg, beating all the time. Now add chopped
prunes and almonds and beat well. Put between layers of cake.

Sufficient for one good-sized layer cake.

Pound Cake

2 cupfuls sugar
2 cupfuls Crisco
2 teaspoonfuls salt
12 eggs
4 cupfuls flour
1/2 teaspoon powered mace
3 tablespoons brandy

Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, add yolks of eggs well
beaten, fold in whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, add brandy,
flour, salt and mace, and mix lightly and quickly. Turn into a papered
cake pan and bake in a slow oven for one hour and twenty minutes.

Sufficient for one large cake.

Boiling Water Cake

1 cupful boiling water
1 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful Crisco
1 egg
1/4 cupful chopped candied citron peel
1 cupful sultana raisins
2-1/2 cupfuls flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1/4 teaspoonfuls grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

Put Crisco and sugar into basin, pour boiling water over them; let
stand till cold, then add egg well beaten, sift in flour, salt, baking
powder, and nutmeg, add peel, raisins, and lemon extract, and mix
well. Turn into greased and floured small square tin and bake in
moderate oven half hour. Cool and cover with boiled frosting.

Sufficient for one small cake.

Butterless-Milkless-Eggless Cake

2 cupfuls brown sugar
2/3 cupful Crisco
2 cupfuls water
2 cupfuls sultana raisins
2 cupfuls seeded raisins
1 teaspoonful salt
2 teaspoonfuls powdered cinnamon
1 teaspoonful powdered cloves
3 tablespoonfuls warm water
1/2 teaspoonful powdered mace
1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
2 teaspoonfuls baking soda
4 cupfuls flour