Turkish Cake
Fine chocolate cake with figs, almonds and raisins. The snow cake mixture will not bear up the fruit. Make the lady cake mixture, and add to it 4 ounces of chocolate melted by heat in a cup. Then prepare 8 ounces of chopped figs. 8 ounces of almonds blanched and split. 8 ounces of seedless raisins. Flavor the prepared cake batter with vanilla and a little brandy. Dust the fruit with flour and stir it in.
What makes us think the ladies cannot make delicate cakes, for sure, just when they want them is the exhibition they sometimes make at a church fair where everybody contributes cake with their names on. They look awful--like a cake hospital.