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° 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.