This section is from the book "Date Cook Book", by May Sowles Metzler. Also available from Amazon: Date Cook Book.
"Hunger is the best sauce."
1 cup sugar butter the size of a small egg 1 tablesooon of flour
Set on the stove and brown, being careful not to burn.
Add 1 1/2 cups of water, stirring constantly, and boil.
Flavor with vanilla. Mrs. L. H. Killey,
Coachella, Calif.
2 cups of milk 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch 2 squares Baker's chocolate 4 tablespoons powdered sugar
2 tablespoons hot water 2 eggs
2/3 cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla
Scald 1 3/4 cups milk, add cornstarch diluted with remaining milk, and cook 8 minutes in a double boiler; melt chocolate over hot water, add 4 tablespoons sugar and hot water, stir until smooth, then add to cooked mixture; beat whites of eggs until stiff; add gradually powdered sugar and continue beating, then add unbeaten yolks, and stir into cooked mixture, cook 1 min-ute, add vanilla, and cool before serving.
Mrs. Fannie M. Farmer.
1 cup whipping cream 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Beat cream until stiff, then add sugar and vanilla.
One cup means 1/2 pint. Cup, tablespoon and teaspoon all mean level measurements.
1 cup dates chopped fine 1/4 cup sugar 1 egg
1/2 cup hot water
Butter the size of an egg
Mix ail together, and boil a little.
An Easily Made Pudding Sauce
Mix 1 tablespoonful flour with 1/2 cup sugar. Add 1/2 pint boiling water. Boil a moment, and pour while hot over 1 egg well beaten. Season with lemon or vanilla.
1 cup powdered sugar 1/3 cup batter
1/2 teaspoon each of lemon and vanilla
Cream butter, add sugar, then flavoring.
Yolk of 1 egg 1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Pour over this 1 pint boiling water, Stir and cook till it thickens, then add 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 dessertspoon vanilla. Pour over the well beaten white of 1 egg.
Mrs. M. A. Lawrence,
Gunnison, Colorado.
Beat yolks of 4 eggs,- add 4 tablespoons sugar and 1 pint milk. Allow to come to a boil, stirring continually. Remove from the stove, and add 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla.
Beat the yolks of 2 eggs until thick, and add gradually 1/2 cup powdered sugar.
Beat the whites of 2 eggs until stiff, and add gradually 1/2 cup powdered sugar.
Combine the two mixtures, and flavor with vanilla. Add a pinch of salt.
 
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