Honey Nut Date Bars

Ingredients

• 3 eggs, well beaten
• 1 cup honey
• 1½ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon Blue Ribbon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon Pure Gold vanilla
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 1 pound chopped dates
• pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix together honey and well-beaten eggs.

2. 2

   Add baking powder and flour sifted together, then chopped dates and nuts, vanilla and pinch of salt.

3. 3

   Bake in long flat tin; mixture should not be more than ½ inch high.

4. 4

   Bake 45 minutes in a slow oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Blue Ribbon and Pure Gold cook book (1905) by Blue Ribbon Manufacturing Company, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon Pure Gold vanilla, $ teaspoon each of Pure Gold cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, 3 teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder, 2 cups flour, 1 cup seedless raisins, $ cup dates, 5 cup nuts. Bake in small tins, or make a little stiffer and drop from spoon. Cup Cakes—Any cake mixture may be used, but scant the flour. Serve plain, or iced, or remove a small part of the centre and fill with custard filling, whipped cream, fruit, etc. Chocolate Drop Cookies—3 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons milk, 2 cups flour, } teaspoon baking soda, 3 cup cocoa, or 2 ounces Blue Ribbon baking chocolate, + cup nuts, $ cup raisins or dates, 1 teaspoon Pure Gold vanilla. Ginger Cookies, No. 1—+3 cup shortening, $ cup brown sugar, 1 egg, } cup molasses mixed with { cup boiling water, 3 cups flour, + teaspoon baking soda, 4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Blue Ribbon baking powder, 1 teaspoon Pure Gold ginger, } teaspoon each Pure Gold cinnamon and nutmeg. Roll thin. Bake. For Ginger Drops use § cup less flour. Ginger Cookies, No. 2—Use Sugar Cookie recipe, but add 2 to 3 teaspoons Pure Gold ginger. Ginger Snaps—+4 cup shortening, } cup brown sugar, } cup molasses, % teaspoon salt, } teaspoon baking soda, 2 teaspoons Pure Gold ginger, 24 cups flour (about). Heat molasses to boiling point and pour over shortening. Add other ingredients. Chill before rolling. Chinese Chews—1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 7 cup flour, 13 teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder, } teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped nuts, 1 cup dates. 90 Blue Ribbon Cook Book To beaten egg yolks add sugar. Sift flour, baking powder and salt, add nuts and dates, and add to first mixture alternately with beaten egg whites. Spread out in shallow pan, bake in a moderate oven. While hot, cut in narrow strips, and roll in powdered sugar. Honey Nut Date Bars—3 eggs, well beaten, 1 cup honey, 13 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Blue Ribbon baking powder, 1 tea- spoon Pure Gold vanilla, 1 cup chopped nuts, 1 pound chopped dates, pinch of salt

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