Boiled Frosting-One and one-quarter cups sugar and 1/2 cup hot water boiled together till it spins a thread. Let cool a minute or two, and pour slowly over the well beaten whites of 2 eggs, beating all the while. Flavor. Stir in chopped dates and nuts mixed.

Mrs. A. G. Proctoe,

Coachella, Calif.

Date Icing

2 cups sugar 1/2 cup water

Let stand until it dissolves. Boil slowly without stirring until it threads from the spoon.

Beat whites of eggs to a stiff froth. When syrup is slightly cool, stir in gradually, and beat until cold.

Flavor to taste, and add chopped dates.

Mrs. T. M. Miller, Los Angeles, Calif.

Date Filling

1/2 pound dates, weighed after 1/3 cup boiling water stoning 1 tablespoonful lemon juice

1/4 cup sugar

Mix ingredients, and cook in a double boiler until thick enough to spread. Dates should be put through a meat chopper.

One cup means 1/2 pint. Cup, tablespoon and teaspoon all mean level measurements.

Date Orange Curd

Juice and grated rind of 1 1 tablespoonful lemon juice orange 1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup butter Yolks of 2 eggs well beaten

Mix thoroughly, put in a double boiler over hot water. Stir till like thick custard.

One-half cup of finely chopped dates stirred in.

Orange Icing

Grated rind of 1 orange Thicken with powdered sugar

2 tablespoons orange juice

Mbs. J. G. Nusbaum,

Coachella, Calif.