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Show Fruit and Cake Are Always Excellent Culinary Friends a i - s t ' Apricot and cooked prunes toned up with touch of car- melrsed brown suger and butter snuggle with glee in rich cat batter. ) By MRS. OAYNOR MADDOX Truit cake Is one good thought, but cake with fruit on it, baked tosether is a second good thought. It'i sometimes a lot better than ; bsks until top of custard mixture browns Tightly. Remove from oven, cool, and remove eidea of aprlng mold. Serve with whipped cream. That's a dessert! the first. Prune and Apricot Cake One and one-fourth cupe sifted cake flour, IS teaspoons baking powder, Va teaspoon salt, cups granulated augar, 4 tablespoons softened butter. 1 egg, well beaten. Va cup milk. 1 teaspoon vanilla: for the fruit part 4 tablespoons butter. cup brown sugar, firmly packed. II cooked apricots, prunes, cooked, halved and pitted. 81ft flour, once, measure, add baking bak-ing powder, salt and augar and sift together three times. Add butter. Combine egg. milk and vanilla. Add to flour mixture, stirring until flour is mm plet eiy dampened. Beat vigorously for one minute. Melt 4 tablespoons butter In pan I by 1 Inches. Use low flsme. Add brown sugar and stir and cook until thoroughly mixed with the butter. Inte this caramel mixture place the prune halves and apricots, cut side up. neatly in order, a prune hall alternating with an apricot Over thia pour the cake batter. Bake in moderate oven (S50 degrees F.) for about SO minutes, until done. Loosen cake from aidee of pan Serve upside down, with fruit peering peer-ing into the hungry eyes of youi family. A dash or two of whipped cream on top of each serving won'l hurt anybody's feelings. Apricot Custard Cake Cake batter: 2 cups flour, t teaspoons tea-spoons baking powder, cup milk 1 egg yolk, cup sugsr, lw table spoon butter. For fruit custard: 1 can apricots (No. 1). using sll apricots apri-cots and cup syrup. 4 egg yolks 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sour cream. Cream butter, add augar, thei cream until fluffy. Beat egg yoll well, and stir Into butter mixture Sift flour and baking powder to tether, adding alternately with milk Beat Pour Into greased ring mole1 with spring sides, lined wit! buttered wax paper. Bake In mod rata oven (330 degreee TJ, abou 40- mlnutaa, until done. Beat egg yolks until lemon colore and fluffy. Add sugsr aad soui cream. Then beat until inlxtun becomes fluffy like whipped cream iStir in the apricot Juice, then ad ithe apricots. . Pour thia ever thi baked cake. Return te oven an |