Date Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 pkg. Dromedary dates
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ teaspoon Royal baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• ½ cup walnuts or pecans
• 1 teaspoon Sauer's vanilla extract
• 1 cup brown bread crumbs (toasted)
• 2 eggs
• Enough milk for medium batter

Method

1. 1

   Chop dates and nut meats.

2. 2

   Beat eggs separately, then mix all ingredients.

3. 3

   Bake 30 minutes.

4. 4

   Cut in squares.

5. 5

   Serve hot or cold with whipped cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Anson County cook book (1928) by First Baptist Church (Wadesboro, N.C.), page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoons Royal baking powder 1 pint Meirose flour 1 teaspoon salt Place fruit (cherries, blackberries, peaches or damsons especially good) in vessel with close fitting top. Let come to a boil. Put flour, baking powder, and salt in bowl. Add enough cold water to make a dough, not too stiff, mixing with a fork. Take cover off boiling fruit, drop dough into it, placing top on lightly at once. Move to back of stove where it can steam slowly for 35 minutes. Do not remove top while pudding is cooking. Serve a slice of pastry with 2 or 3 tablespoons of the fruit and juice, topped with hard sauce made by creaming thoroughly 1V2 cups sugar, V2 cup butter, and thinning with 2 tablespoons cream. Flavor with Sauer's vanilla. — Mrs. Ben I. Dunlap, Ansonville, N. C. SWEET POTATO PUDDING 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 cup grated sweet potato V2 cup butter Allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon to batter; mix in order given and bake in V2 cup milk Pinch of soda 1 tablespoon Melrose flour 1 tablespoon molasses taste. Enough milk to make a soft moderate oven. — Mrs. R. S. Pruette. SNOW PUDDING 2 tablespoonfuls gelatine 1 teaspoon Sauer's vanilla Vi cup cold water 1 cup boiling water 1 cup sugar 3 whites of eggs 1 cup lemon juice Beat whites of eggs light and when jelly begins to thicken, add to it. Beat until smooth, then pour in mold. Sauce for Pudding Yolks of 3 eggs V2 teaspoon Sauer's vanilla Vs teaspoon salt % cup sugar 1 pt. hot milk Stir constantly until thick like boiled custard. — Mrs. E. C. Ingram. SW EET MEAT PUDDING 6 ozs. butter M> lb. sugar 6 eggs (beaten separately) 1 nutmeg 1 glass jelly A little lemon juice Bake in rich pie crust rolled thin in cake pans. — Miss Nancy L. Little. — SATISFACTORY WORK ALWAYS — STOGNER'S BARKER SHOP — BANANA PUDDING 4 bananas 1 cup sugar 4 eggs 2 cups sweet milk 18 or 20 vanilla wafers Butter size of walnut 2 tablespoons corn starch Cut the bananas cross ways in thin slices; put alternate layers of wafers and bananas, leaving first and last layers of the wafers until the pan is full; then make a custard of the milk, corn starch, butter and yolks of the eggs, adding four tablespoonfuls of sugar; spread over the top and put <n oven until brown. — Mrs. Fred Wall. DATE PUDDING 1 pkg. Dromedary dates Vz cup sugar xk teaspoon Royal baking powder 1 pinch salt cup walnuts or pecans 1 teaspoon Sauer's vanilla extract 1 cup brown bread crumbs (toast- ed) 2 eggs Enough milk for medium batter

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