1½ cupfuls sugar 2 cupfuls mashed prunes 2 cupfuls flour ¼ cupful butter 1 teaspoonful soda 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon 1 teaspoonful cloves 2 eggs Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, prunes, spices, soda dissolved in water, flour, and bake in buttered pan, or make into layers. GINGERBREAD No. ½ cupful butter ¾ cupful sugar ½ cupful molasses ½ cupful sour milk 2 cupfuls flour 1 egg 1 teaspoonful ginger ½ teaspoonful cinnamon 1 teaspoonful soda pinch of salt Cream butter and sugar, add molasses, milk, soda dissolved in little water, beaten egg, flour and spices. Bake in buttered pan. GINGERBREAD No. ½ cupful sugar ½ cupful molasses ½ cupful sour milk ¼ cupful butter 1½ cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful ginger ½ teaspoonful cinnamon ½ teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful soda Mix as for Gingerbread No. 1 without the egg.

Prune Fruit Cake Monologue from Love in a Wood

Rehearse Prune Fruit Cake's monologue