1 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful boiling water
2 whites of eggs
Pinch cream of tartar
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1/2 cupful chopped raisins
1/2 cupful chopped nut meats
5 chopped figs
_For cake._ Cream Crisco and sugar together. Sift together three times
dry ingredients and add alternately with water. Add vanilla, beat
mixture well, then fold in beaten yolks of eggs. Divide into two
Criscoed and floured layer cake tins and bake in moderate oven
twenty-five minutes.
_For filling._ Put sugar and water into saucepan, stir till boiling,
add cream of tartar, then boil until it forms soft ball when tried
in cold water, or 240° F.; pour on to stiffly beaten whites of
eggs, pouring in steady stream and very slowly, adding while beating
vanilla, raisins, nuts, and figs, beat until thick and divide between
and on top of cake.
Sufficient for one large layer cake.