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  1. Ingredients for Black Cake With Prune Filling

  2. 1 1/2 cupfuls sugar

  3. 1/2 teaspoonful salt

  4. 3 eggs

  5. 1/2 cupful Crisco

  6. 1 cupful milk

  7. 1/2 teaspoonful baking soda

  8. 2 cupfuls flour

  9. 1 teaspoonful baking powder

  10. 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract

  11. 1/3 cake chocolate

  12. For Filling

  13. 1 cupful sugar

  14. 1/3 cupful boiling water

  15. 1 white of egg

  16. 1/2 cupful stoned stewed prunes

  17. 1/3 cupful blanched chopped almonds

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  1. Instructions For cake.

  2. Beat 1 egg in double boiler, add 1/2 cupful milk, 1/2 cupful sugar and chocolate; mix well and cook until it thickens.

  3. Cool and set aside.

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

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

  6. Bake twenty minutes in moderate oven.

  7. For filling.

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

  9. Now add chopped prunes and almonds and beat well.

  10. Put between layers of cake.

  11. Sufficient for one good-sized layer cake.

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