This section is from the book "Date Cook Book", by May Sowles Metzler. Also available from Amazon: Date Cook Book.
1 cup sweet milk 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups Graham flour 2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg
Mix well and steam 3 hours. Serve with "Date Sauce."
1/4 pound of bread crumbs
1/4 pound flour
1/4 pound sugar
1/4 pound finely chopped suet
1/4 teaspoon soda 1/2 pound dates cut in small pieces
1 egg
Mix all dry ingredients together, beat egg and stir in, and add enough milk to make a thick batter. Pour into a buttered mould and cover with buttered paper Steam for three hours. Serve with any sweet pudding sauce. Mrs. H. T. Fothergill,
Coaehella, Cal.
Put in a sifter 1/2 cup Indian meal, 1/2 cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teasponful soda. Sift three times. Mix 1/2 cup suet, 1/2 cup molasses and add 1/2 cup sour milk. Gradually add dry ingredients to this mixture and beat well all together. Add 1 cup dates, well floured. Butter mould and steam two hours or more then place in the oven until dry outside.
Miss E. Metzler, Kansas City, Mo.
 
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