Black Cake with Prune Filling
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Contains raw egg white in the frosting which is not thoroughly cooked.
Ingredients
Method
Beat 1 egg in a double boiler, add 0.25 cupful milk, a portion of the sugar, and chocolate; mix well and cook until it thickens, then cool and set aside.
Cream Crisco with the remainder of the sugar, add salt, remaining eggs well beaten, baking soda mixed with the remainder of the milk, flour, baking powder, and vanilla.
Mix well and add the chocolate paste, then divide into two greased and floured layer cake tins.
Bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
For filling, boil the filling sugar and water together without stirring until it reaches 240 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pour the hot syrup over the beaten white of egg, beating continuously.
Add chopped prunes and almonds and beat well, then spread between the cake layers.
Original recipe, verbatim
Black Cake with Prune Filling
15^ cupfuls sugar >^ teaspoonful baking soda
54 teaspoonful salt 2 cupfuls flour
3 eggs 1 teaspoonful baking powder
yi cupful Crisco yi teaspoonful vanilla extract
1 cupful milk y^ cake chocolate
For Filling
1 cupful sugar yi cupful stoned stewed prunes
y3 cupful boiling water ^ cupful blanched chopped
1 white of egg almonds
For cake. Beat 1 egg in double boiler, add }4 cupful milk, ^
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
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Cakes
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° 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.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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