"My rule? Why certainly: It's queer: But no one ever ate that cake, Who does not ask me for the rule - (How much to use, how long to bake.")

Cake Or Pudding

1 pound dates, stoned and cut 1 cup Eng. walnut meats 1/2 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt 4 eggs

1/2 tablespoon Crisco 1/2 cup sugar

Beat the whites of eggs, stir in the sugar, add yolks of eggs, Crisco, then the dates, nuts, flour, baking powder and salt. Turn into a greased pan, and bake thirty minutes. Cut in squares, and use as cake or pudding with whipped cream. Mrs. Bruce Drummond,

Indio, Calif.

Cracker Cake

6 egg yolks, creamed 1 cup sugar 1 cup dates

1 cup nuts

4 tablespoons cracker crumbs

1 teaspoon baking powder

Add slightly beaten whites last. Bake slowly.

Mrs. K. Chamberlain, Coackella, Calif.

Crumby Toast

6 eggs beaten separately 3/4 cup butter 1 cup sugar

1/2 pound chopped walnuts 1 pound dates 6 tablespoons fine bread crumbs

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks beaten well, then add dates and nuts, which have been cut in small pieces. Mix baking powder and crumbs and add to mixture, and lastly add well beaten whites.

Bake in a rather thin sheet in a moderate oven.

Serve with whipped cream as a frosting.

Mrs. Ellis, Denver, Colo.

Crumb Cake

1 cup sugar

1 cup bread crumbs

1 pound of dates 1/2 pound walnuts

6 eggs 1 teaspoon baking powder

A pinch of salt

Beat yolks of eggs, add sugar, dates, nuts, salt and crumbs, with which mix the baking powder. Lastly fold in the well-beaten whites. Bake in a loaf. Slice in 1/2-inch slices or break in pieces, and serve with whipped cream as a dessert.

"Farmer's Wife."

Date Loaf

1/4 cup Crisco 1 cup sugar

1 egg

2 cups milk 4 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking power mixed with the flour 1 cup dates, cut fine 1 cup walnuts cut

Sift a little flour over dates and nuts to prevent sticking. Citron or lemon peel is an improvement. Bake in a slow oven 1 hour. Mrs. W. L. Paul,

Coachella, Calif.

Date And Nut Loaf

1 pound of dates, weighed after stoning 1 pound walnuts 1 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup sugar

4 level teaspoonfuls baking powder 4 eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately 1 teaspoonful of vanilla

Mix salt and baking powder well with flour, add dates and walnuts, then sugar, and mix thoroughly. Add yolks and fold in the whites. Put in a loaf tin lined with buttered paper, and bake in a slow oven 1 hour.

Will keep a long time.

Mrs. Bruce Drummond,

Indio, Calif.

Date Shortcake

1 cup sugar

1 egg

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 tablespoon butter 1 cup sweet milk Flavoring

2 rounded up cups flour

Bake in round pans.

For filling; grind dates in meat chopper, beat white of egg with 1 tablespoon of water; add a little sugar and the dates and spread between layers.

May be used either as cake or shortcake.

Mrs. C. E. Cook,

Indio, Calif.