This section is from the book "Date Cook Book", by May Sowles Metzler. Also available from Amazon: Date Cook Book.
Boil 1 quart of water, add 1 ten spoonful salt and drop in slowly, stirring constantly enough Graham flour to make a moderately thick mush. Continue cooking and stirring occasionally for about half an hour. A few minutes before removing from the fire, add 1 cup stoned and cut-up dates. Serve hot with cream.
Rice Pudding a la Hoover Wash 1 cup rice, drain and add to 2 cups hot water, 1/4 teaspoon salt. Steam 45 minutes. Add 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 package dates, cut, and 1 cup scalded milk, and steam 15 minutes longer.
"Delineator."
6 tablespoons of rice 2 quarts milk and 2 tablespoons thick sweet cream
1 teaspoon salt 1 cup dates, stoned and cut in small pieces
Bake very slowly for three hours. Serve with cream
Makes a large pudding.
Mrs. J. W. Rockefeller,
Gunnison, Colo.
Roly-Poly Apple and Date Pudding Pare, core and slice cooking apples, and stone and halve a few dates. Make a rich biscuit dough. Roll out not quite half an inch thick, lay the fruit on the paste, bring edges together, wrap in a pudding cloth, which has been well floured, tie up and plunge into boiling water, and boil two hours. Serve with sweet sauce. In tying bag, leave room to swell.
Mrs. J. Benson,
Clifton, Colo.
1 cup grated broad
1 cup sugar
1 cup milk
1 cup currants or raisins
1 cud dates
1 cup flour 1 cup chopped suet 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon soda 1 egg
Mix all dry ingredients together, then add milk Steam two hours. Serve with "Easily made pudding sauce." mrs. jas. Williamson,
Byrnfoot Hill, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Beat yolks of 2 eggs with 1/4 cup sugar, until light add 1 tablespoonful softened butter and 1/2 cup milk
Sift together 1 cup flour, a little salt and 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder; stir this in, then fold in the well beaten whites, and 1 cup cut dates. Turn in individual cups and steam one hour. Serve with "Yellow Sauce" or "Chocolate Sauce."
Mrs. V. E. Metzler.
Beat the yolks of 3 eggs till lemon colored and thick Add gradually 1/2 cup sugar and continue the beating, add 3 tablespoons sweet milk and 1 cupful of flour and beat until smooth. Add 1/2 cup chopped dates. Lastly add the well beeaten whites of those eggs and 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Turn into greased caps, filling half full, and steam twenty minutes. Serve with a vanilla flavored pudding sauce. "One Egg Sauce" would be good with this pudding.
 
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