Date Cake

Ingredients

• One-fourth pound of dates
• 1 cup of seeded raisins
• 2^ cups of flour
• % cup butter
• % tumbler currant or blackberry jelly
• 1 dessertspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• % nutmeg grated
• 1% cups brown sugar
• 1 cup sour cream
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons warm water

Method

1. 1

   Seed dates and chop a little, flour fruit and add just before putting in soda.

2. 2

   Put in greased pan and bake in a slow oven 1.5 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 153. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 cups of flour, 1 egg, 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 light teaspoons bakiQg powder. Mix well and bake in a loaf or in muffin rings. Ice with white icing. Date Cake. One-fourth pound of dates, 1 cup of seeded raisins, 2^ cups of KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. 253 flour, % cup butter, % tumbler currant or blackberry jelly, 1 des- sertspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon allspice, % nutmeg grated, 1% cups brown sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons warm water

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