Date Bars

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 pound dates
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup walnuts
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Combine egg yolk with sugar, stir until creamy, add pinch salt.

2. 2

   Mix flour and baking powder.

3. 3

   Add dates, stoned and quartered.

4. 4

   Beat egg whites stiff, add alternately with flour.

5. 5

   Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

6. 6

   Remove from pan when almost cold, cut into bars and roll in powdered sugar, or ice with orange frosting and decorate with nut meats and dates.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Date Bars 1 pound dates, stoned 3^ cup water Y2 cup sugar Cook and mash to jam paste with potato masher. 2Y2 cups rolled oats 1 cup butter or % cup 2Y2 cups white flour cooking oil Y2 cup cold water 1 cup brown sugar yi teaspoon soda 160 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK Cream butter and sugar, add water. Then sift flour with soda and add rolled oats. Mix all. Roll thin. Spread one-half of your rolled dough with date paste and cover with other one-half of rolled dough. Cut in oblong bars and bake in moderate oven ten to fifteen minutes. May Elliott Bostwick (Beta Sigma). Baked Fudge Cook until blended two ounces Baker's chocolate and one-half cup melted butter. Beat three eggs, add one cup sugar and three-fourths cup flour sifted with one-half teaspoon salt and one-half teaspoon baking powder. Combine these mixtures and add one cup nuts and one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in a dripping pan and cut in squares. Bake twenty- five minutes in moderate oven. Annabel Carolyn Teal (Phi). Oatmeal Hermits 2 cups oatmeal 1 cup melted shortening 3^ cup English walnuts 2 weU beaten eggs 1 cup seeded raisins 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 tablespoon soda, dissolved in 2 cups flour 6 tablespoons sweet milk Put the oatmeal, nuts and raisins through the coarse cutter of meat chopper. Mix sugar, shortening and eggs. Add soda, milk, flour and spices. Stir in chopped materials. Drop from a dessert spoon wet in milk, on tin sheets, having drops about three inches apart. Bake in moderately hot oven. Makes about three dozen. Mabel Buckley (Tau). Rocks 1 cup butter 1 good tablespoon cold 13^ cups sugar water 3 eggs 1 pinch of salt 3 good cups flour 1 cup dates 13^ cups walnuts 14, teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon soda in flour 3^ teaspoon allspice 1 teaspoon cream tartar in flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon Chop walnuts and dates. Drop from teaspoon and bake as cookies. Florence C. McMillen (Omega). CAKES 161 Chocolate Rocks 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder }/2 cup butter 1 cup nuts ^/i cup milk 1 cup raisins 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups flour 2 squares chocolate Mix in order given. Add beaten white of egg last. Bake in moderate oven. Grace T. Adams (Lambda). Chocolate Rocks ^ cup granulated sugar ^ cup brown sugar 23^ cups flour 3 eggs 1 teaspoon cloves 2}/^ heaping teaspoons baking powder 1 tablespoon grated chocolate, or cocoa 2 teaspoons nutmeg ]/i teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon 2 cups seeded raisins 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup English walnuts }/2 cup home-made wine or grape juice Cream butter and sugar, add wine, spices and chocolate. Allow to stand one-half hour. Add one-half cup of the flour to the raisins. Miriam Starrett (Kappa). Date Rocks 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon soda in 13^ cups sugar 3^ cup hot water 3 eggs 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2]/2 cups flour 3^ teaspoon cloves 2 pounds dates 1 pound walnuts, before shelUng Drop from spoon. Have quick oven. Mary Basset Bray (Lambda). COOKIES Chocolate Cookies 1 cup sugar 1)4, cups flour, sifted }/2 cup butter 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 egg 3 squares chocolate, melted }/2 cup milk 1 cup chopped nuts Mix in order given. Drop from teaspoon onto floured pans and bake in hot oven ten or fifteen minutes. Have a pan of water on bottom of oven to prevent cookies burning. Frost with chocolate frosting if so desired. Helen M. Smith (Lambda Nu). Cocoanut Cookies 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon milk 2 eggs 1 cup cocoanut 1 cup butter 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder mixed in 1 cup flour Add a bit more flour if necessary. Roll very thin. Marion Gay lord (Lambda Nu). Date Bars 1 cup sugar 1 pound dates 3 eggs 1 cup flour 1 cup walnuts

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