2 ounces chocolate 1 1/2 pints milk.

1 pint bread crumbs.

2 eggs.

1/4 teaspoon salt 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup dates or nuts 3 tablespoons butter.

Heat milk, butter, chocolate and salt and pour over the crumbs. Cool slightly and add beaten eggs. Then add sugar, or it may be put in with milk when heated. Add fruit. Bake in buttered dish for fifty or sixty minutes in moderate oven. Serve with sauce:

1 cup sugar.

1 cup sweet milk.

1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon butter.

Vanilla.

Boil for few minutes and let cool.

Edith Speckman Kern, Chicago, Ill. University of Minnesota.

3 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/4 teaspoon cloves 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg.

1/2 cup molasses 1 7/8 cups flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon allspice 1/2 pound dates cut in small pieces.

Melt butter, add molasses and milk. Then add all the dry ingredients which have been sifted together, and the dates. Steam for two and one-half hours.

Golden Sauce

Put in a double boiler 1 cup sugar.

1/3 cup butter.

1/3 cup milk.

When dissolved, beat in the yolks of two eggs. Add one teaspoon of vanilla and beat with Dover egg beater to keep from lumping. Serve hot with the Date Pudding.

Esther Hunter Ong, Champaign, Ill. University of Illinois.