Date Pudding

1 cup dates

1 cup walnut meats

1 cup bread crumbs

1 cup sugar

3/4 cup milk

3 eggs

1 heaping tablespoon flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Method :

Put dates, nuts and bread crumbs through the meat chopper. Put sugar and milk over them and let stand at least one hour. Then beat the eggs well (whole eggs) and stir into this mixture. Add flour and baking powder. Flavor with vanilla. Put in buttered dish and bake for fifteen minutes. Then take out and beat all together well. Put back in oven and bake until firm - five or ten minutes. Serve with unsweetened whipped cream. Serves about ten people and is good either hot or cold.

Frances Pennewell, XL

Pequot Pudding

1/4 cup granulated tapioca 2 tablespoons corn meal 1/4 cup shredded cocoanut

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 quart scalded milk

1 cup brown sugar

Method :

Mix the tapioca, cornmeal, cocoanut and salt and add to the milk. Cook until it begins to thicken, add the sugar, pour into a buttered pudding dish, and bake forty-five minutes. With a fireless cooker, gas range, fifteen minutes with the gas on is long enough, and after the gas is shut off the pudding may be left in the oven indefinitely if it is covered. This pudding may be served hot with melted butter, or very cold with cream. Serves eight.

Jane Pruden Totten, Xi.

Date Pudding

1 cup dates 1 cup walnut meats 1 cup bread crumbs 1 cup sugar

1 cup milk

1 egg

1 teaspoon baking powder vanilla

Mix ingredients and bake one-half hour in a moderate oven.

Helen Smith SteinFilber, Omicron.

May omit bread crumbs and use three tablespoons flour instead and serve with whipped cream.

Marion Perkins Gem mill, Xi.

Date Souffle Or Torte

2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 cup walnuts 1 cup dates

1 heaping tablespoon flour 1 teaspoon baking powder vanilla

Method :

Mix in order after beating eggs well. Bake twenty minutes in moderate oven. Serve with whipped cream.

Ethelwynn Magee Tidmarsh, Xi.

Date Cake

1 cup chopped dates

1 teaspoon soda

2 scant cups flour 1 level teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon butter

1 cup hot water 1 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup chopped nuts

Method :

Over 1 cup dates chopped, pour one cup of hot water in which one teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved. Let it stand while you mix the following: one cup sugar, two scant cups flour, one egg. one level teaspoon baking powder, one tablespoon butter and one-half cup chopped nuts. Stir all together and bake very slowly.

Serve with whipped cream.

Helen Shurtleff, Xi.

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Apple Dumpling

I cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder salt brown sugar

1 tablespoon butter milk apples cut in pieces and seasoned with nutmeg or cinnamon and sugar

Method:

Mix flour, baking powder, butter and salt. Add enough milk to make it soft. Roll out thin and fill with pieces of apples. Roll the apples up in the dough, using the dough as a blanket, place in a syrup made of the brown sugar, a little butter and water. Bake thirty minutes. Serve with the syrup for sauce. Thick cream may also be used with the sauce. This recipe serves four.

Gladys Carlson Scott, Xi.