Date Loaf

Ingredients

• Four cups flour
• half cup white sugar
• one teaspoon salt
• one tablespoon butter
• one pound dates
• one large cup broken walnuts
• one egg
• half cup of milk

Method

No method was recorded for this recipe.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Date Loaf One egg, three-quarters cup brown sugar, butter size of an egg,, one cup sour milk, half a teaspoon baking soda, 'one and a half cups Graham flour, one cup white flour, one teaspoon salt, three-quarters pound chopped dates. Bake one hour in a slow oven. White Cake Two cups sifted sugar, one cup butter, cream butter and sugar, one cup sweet milk, four eggs beaten stiff, three cups flour, two teaspoons of baking powder; add eggs last. Frosting. — Two cups granulated sugar, half a cup cold water; mix, let boil till it drops hard, whites of two eggs beaten stiff; pour on syrup and beat well. 128 The Toronto Cook Book Sponge Cake Four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup flour; beat eggs well, separately; add half the sugar to each; beat well again separ- ately; then beat together well; stir in flour and add flavoring. Walnut Loaf Four cups flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one and a half cups sugar, one teaspoon salt, two eggs, one and three-quarters cups milk, one and a half cups walnuts; leave to rise and bake in a slow oven. Sponge Cake Four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup flour; put one teaspoon baking powder in flour; beat eggs separately; add half the sugar to each; beat well again separately, then beat together well; stir in flour, add flavoring. Bake forty minutes' Spiced Layer Cake Eight eggs, one cup brown sugar, quarter cup melted butter, quarter cup sour milk, half a teaspoon baking soda, one teaspoon ground cinnamon, one of ground cloves, quarter teaspoon nutmeg, one cup flcur, quarter cup syrup, three-quarters cup raisins. Walnut Cake Two cups sugar, half a cup butter, four eggs, beaten to a froth one cup sweet milk, two teaspoons baking powder, three cups flour, two cups chopped walnuts (fine) ; mix butter and sugar together, then milk, flour and nuts, lastly the beaten whites. Date Loaf Four cups flour, half cup white sugar, one teaspoon salt, one tablespoon butter; rub butter and sugar together; four teaspoons baking powder, one pound dates, one large cup broken walnuts, one egg, beat light, fill cup with milk, then add half cup of milk

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