Date Cake

Ingredients

• two cups of flour
• four level teaspoons of baking powder
• one-half level teaspoon of salt
• one-quarter cup of butter
• one egg
• three-quarters cup of milk
• one and one-half cups of dates stoned and cut into small pieces

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour with baking powder, salt, and butter.

2. 2

   Beat egg, add milk, and mix into the ingredients.

3. 3

   Add dates and bake in a sheet.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus (1911) by Rufus Estes, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

four level teaspoons of baking powder. Add to the first mixture alternately with three-quarters cup of milk, beat hard, and fold in the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs. Bake in a loaf and cover with white icing. CREAM CAKE OR PIE— This recipe makes a simple layer cake to be filled in various ways. Cream one-quarter cup of butter with one cup of sugar, add the beaten yolks of two eggs and one teaspoon of vanilla. Now beat hard, then mix in one- half cup of milk alternately with one and one-half cups of flour sifted twice with two level teaspoons of baking powder. Beat just enough to make smooth, then fold in lightly the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs and pour into an oblong shallow pan that is buttered, floured and rapped to shake out all that is superfluous. Bake about twenty minutes, take from pan and cool. Just before serving split the cake and fill with a cooked cream filling or with sweet thick cream beaten, sweetened with powdered sugar and flavored to the taste. CREAM LAYER CAKE— Cream one-quarter cup of butter well with one cup of sugar, add the yolks of three eggs beaten light, one-half cup of milk, then one and one-half cups of flour sifted twice with three level teaspoons of baking powder. Stir in lightly last of all the whites of three eggs beaten stiff. Bake in a pan large enough to make one thin cake and bake. Cool and split, then spread on one-half pint of cream beaten light, sweetened, and flavored with a few drops of vanilla. Put on the top cake and dust with powdered sugar. DATE CAKE— Sift two cups of flour with four level tea- spoons of baking powder, one-half level teaspoon of salt and one-quarter cup of butter. Beat one egg, add three-quarters, cup of milk and mix into the ingredients. Add last one and 96 _ CAKES, CRULLERS, ECLAIRS _ one-half cups of dates stoned and cut into' small pieces

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