Party Date-Nut Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons flour
• 12 cup Crisco
• 112 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1% teaspoons baking powder
• 3 teaspoons double-acting baking powder
• 2 unbeaten eggs
• 1 cup chopped dates
• Y% cup coarsely chopped nuts

Method

1. 1

   Sift together dry ingredients.

2. 2

   Add Crisco, milk and vanilla and beat 300 strokes vigorously.

3. 3

   Add eggs and dates and beat 300 strokes more.

4. 4

   Fold in nuts and pour into two wax-paper lined pans.

5. 5

   Bake at 350° for 35 to 45 minutes.

6. 6

   When cool frost with fresh orange icing.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Quaker recipes (1954) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1% teaspoons baking powder 3 stiff beaten egg whites Cream shortening and sugar, add egg yolks and vanilla, beat well, add sifted dry ingredients alternately with graham cracker crumbs and milk. Add nut meats. Fold in egg whites. Bake in 2 8-inch cake pans lined with waxed paper 25 minutes at 350°. Put together with brown sugar filling. BESSIE JOHNSON (Mrs. Roy) NUT AND DATE CAKE 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 packages dates 2 cups chopped English walnuts 1% teaspoons vanilla 1 cup sugar Y4 teaspoon salt 4 eggs Put all dry ingredients in sifter and sift over chopped nuts and dates. Work together. Add yolks well beaten and mix. Add stiffly beaten whites and vanilla. Bake in slow oven 50 minutes. Mrs. W. C. JOHNSON 28 CAKES TUTTI-FRUITTI CAKE 1 No. 2 can fruit cocktail 1 large bakers angel food cake 1 pint whipping cream 2 tablespoons sugar Drain fruit cocktail, whip cream, using sugar. Slice cake lengthwise. _ Use half of fruit cocktail and cream between layers, and use remaining cream on top and sides of cake. Chill. Delicious as well as pretty. DOROTHY VARNER BLACKWELL (Mrs. James) BOILED ICING 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Y cup white Karo syrup 2 egg whites beaten Y2 cup cold water Boil first four ingredients together until it forms ball in cold water. Do not stir after mixing. Pour over egg whites, beating continually. Beat until cool. When it becomes crusty on sides of bowl spread quickly over cake. EVELYN THOMPSON (Mrs. Blake) PARTY DATE-NUT CAKE 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons flour 12 cup Crisco 112 cups sugar 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon salt 1% teaspoons vanilla 3 teaspoons double-acting 2 unbeaten eggs baking powder 1 cup chopped dates Y% cup coarsely chopped nuts

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