Date Delight (No Sugar)

2 tablespoons of nut butter 2 tablespoons of cornstarch 3 tablespoons of honey A few grains of salt

1 pint of milk

2 eggs

1 cup of chopped dates

Melt the butter; stir in the cornstarch and the honey, add the milk and the salt. Cook in a double boiler for twenty minutes; add the yolks of the eggs, and cook for five minutes. Remove from the fire; add to this the beaten whites of the eggs and the dates. Place in custard cups for individual serving.

Ladies' Home Journal.

Date Farina Cups (No Sugar)

To 1 pint of milk, add 1/2 teaspoonful of salt and 1/2 cup of cut up dates.

When boiling hot, add 6 tablespoons of farina, stirring continually.

Cook until very thick, and flavor with 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Pour into individual cups. When cold, turn out, and serve with lemon flavored custard sauce, and sprinkle thickly with chopped, blanched almonds.

Date Jelly

Three-quarter pound of dates. Stone, and boil in a little more than 1 quart of water. Strain through a fine strainer, rubbing through with a wooden spoon.

Boil syrup, adding as it thickens 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 ounce of gelatine, 1 wine glass of sherry, (fruit juice may be used) a little lemon juice and the grated rind.

Pour into a wetted mould, and garnish with shredded almonds. Mrs. R. H. Postlethwaite,

Coachella, Calif.

Date Pudding (A Sugarless Pudding Which Uses Both Syrup And Sweet Fruit)

2 cups milk

1/2 cup corn or maple syrup 1/2. cup seeded dates cut up small

3 tablespoons cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the cornstarch with 1/4 cup milk. Heat the remaining milk in a double boiler. Add cornstarch, syrup, dates and salt: stir until thick. Cover and cook twenty minutes. Add the vanilla, and pour into a dish to cool.

Prunes are good in place of dates. Serves five people. United States Food Leaflet NO. 15.

Date Whip

1 pound dates

1 pint whipping cream

1 cup Eng. walnut meats

1/2 cup sugar (powdered) 1 tcaspoonful vanilla

Stone dates and cut m small pieces. Cut nuts in small pieces. Whip cream until stiff, add nuts, sugar and dates. Flavor, chill and serve.

Mrs. G. J. Shobnhair,

Hollywood, Calif.

Divinity Pudding

9 tablespoons of rolled cracker crumbs 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 cups sugar 2 cups English walnut meats

1/2 pound dates (latter two ingredients chopped, but not fine)

6 eggs beaten separately, whites added Inst

Pour batter into a pan, and have it not more than 2 inches thick. Bake in a slow oven thirty minutes. Cut in squares, and serve with whipped cream.

Mrs. G. J. Shoenhair,

Hollywood, Calif.

Floating Island

1 pint of milk

1/2 cup of chopped dates

2 eggs

1 scant tablespoon cornstarch

Put dates and milk in a double boiler and heat. Add cornstarch, mixed smooth With a little milk, and the yolks of eggs well beaten. As soon as the custard thickens, pour into a dish. Beat the whites stiffly, add a little sugar and orange flavoring, and drop in small portions on the custard. On the top of each "Island' put a half date. Serve very cold.

Mrs. V. E. Metzler.