Date Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup dates, picked in pieces
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 egg
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1.5 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 0.5 cup walnut meats

Method

1. 1

   Sprinkle soda over dates and add hot water.

2. 2

   Let them stand while mixing the remainder of cake and add last.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Date Cake 1 cup dates, picked in pieces 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon soda 1 egg 1 cup boiling water 13^ cups flour 1 tablespoon butter ^ cup walnut meats Sprinkle soda over dates and add hot water. Let them stand while mixing the remainder of cake and add last. Jo Pierce (Alpha Zeta). Devil's Food 1 egg, beaten 1 cup thick sour cream 1 cup sugar * 1}^ cups flour 2 squares chocolate, dissolved in 3/^ cup boiUng water 1 even teaspoon soda, added to cream 1 teaspoon vanilla Gail H. Luther (Lambda). Devil's Food Cake 2 cups brown sugar 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup butter 2 cups flour 3 eggs 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup sour milk 3^ cup chocolate Cream butter and sugar, then the beaten eggs, add the sour milk and soda alternately with the flour. Then at the last add the melted chocolate. Bake in loaf. Ruth Wortman (Eta). Devil's Food Cake 3^ cake grated chocolate 1 teaspoon soda }/2 cup hot water Mix well and let stand until cake is mixed. 2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs, beaten together 3^ cup butter, creamed well ^ cup sour milk 1 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, allspice and cloves 23^ cups flour Bake in layers. Louise Riggs (Theta). CAKES 147 Devil's Food Cake with Black Walnuts 6 tablespoons chocolate, dissolved in 5 tablespoons boiling water 4 eggs beaten separately 3^ cup butter 114, cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon vanilla 3/2 cup sweet milk Cream butter, add sugar, add egg yolks, stir in chocolate, add milk, then flour and whites of eggs alternately, sifting in baking powder with teaspoon flour, add vanilla and a cup of black walnut meats. Bake in layers put together with: Mocha Icing cream butter size of egg 2 tablespoons cocoa 2 cups powdered sugar Mix well, then moisten with hot or cold clear coffee until of a consistency to spread. Margaret Jayne (Tau). Eggless Cake 1 cup sugar 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespoon lard 1 teaspoon soda little salt 2 scant cups flour 1 cup raisins, or half nuts and raisins 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg Frances Firkins (Lambda). Easy White Cake Place the unbeaten whites of two eggs in a measuring cup. Fill to one-half with melted butter, then fill to the top with milk. Add 114 cups flour 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder 1 cup sugar Beat all these together for five minutes or more, as the success of this cake depends upon the beating. Dorette John (Iota). '1M DIOI/rA (JAMMA OOOK HOOK Fruit Cake 1 cup Hutr^nr 1 (uip buUnr 1 (!up iri<)lnws(^M 4 c^KS 2^2 t" 2;*.f cups flour

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