Date Sponge

Ingredients

• 1 quart scalded milk
• 6 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 cup cold milk
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract

Method

1. 1

   To the scalded milk add the cornstarch, mixed smooth with the cold milk, and stir until smooth.

2. 2

   Add butter, salt and sugar; cover and let cook over boiling water for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Then add the dates, stoned and chopped, and the flavoring.

4. 4

   Cook for ten minutes longer, stirring all the time; pour into a glass dish and when cool decorate with whole stoned dates.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Institute cook book (1913) by Helen Cramp, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DATE SPONGE 1 quart scalded milh- 6 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup cold milk 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon lemon extract

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