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Aunt Ruth's Date Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Cake:
1 egg
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour (add more)
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
½ cup nutmeats
1 tsp. vanilla or spices for flavoring

Nutmeats:
1 cup boiling water
1 cup dates chopped
1 Tbsp. butter
Directions:
Directions:
Mix the nutmeat ingredients--boiling water, chopped dates and butter--and let cool.

Combine the cake ingredients. Bake at 350º for 25 minutes.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Discovered this handwritten recipe on a paper invoice. The invoice heading reads:

GILSTAD & HEBRON
Mfrs. of Cement Block Machines and Cement Mixers
Cinder and Concrete Blocks - Cement Brick
Phone 118
Storm Lake, Iowa.

 

 

 

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