GUYANA BLACK CAKE

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lb. flour,
• 1 lb. butter,
• 1 lb. dark Sugar,
• 1 1/2 lb. Raisin,
• 1 1/2 lb. prunes,
• 1 doz. eggs,
• 1 lb. walnuts,
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder,
• 1/2 bottle fruit juice.

Procedures

1. Soak fruit in the fruit juice for a month. Grease and doubly line an 8" cake pan. cream Sugar and margarine. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg.
2. Add fruits and stir well. Sift flour, baking powder and mix together. Fold flour into liquid ingredients, a little at a time. Mix to a soft dropping consistency (using more fruit juice if needed).
3. Add 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and vanilla. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and bake in a slow oven at 300 degrees for 2 hrs.
4. Sprinkle fruit juice over cake immediately after it is baked. Repeat 3 or 4 times.