CAKES

COCONUT CAKE

% cup butter
% cup white sugar
(cream together).
3 egg yolks
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons milk or more
Mix well. Put in pan. Whip up 3
egg whites
% cup white sugar (fine)
1 cup desiccated coconut
Mix well and spread over first mix-
ture. Bake in moderate oven 40 min-
utes.
Mrs. Bertha King (6)
Past Grand Matron (1943)

DATE CAKE

l% cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1% cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 lb. chopped dates

% cup walnuts, chopped fine
4 teaspoon salt

Y% cup warm water

Cream butter and sugar, add well-
beaten eggs. Sift flour, soda, salt. Mix
dates and nuts by hand into flour.
Beat into first mixture alternately
with warm water until creamy. Add
vanilla. Put mixture into well greased
loaf tin. Cover with greased paper
and bake in moderate oven, 325°
about 50 minutes.

Mrs. Jane Hodge (1)
Past Grand Matron (1937)

DATE AND RUM CAKE

¥% lb. dates, cut

% cup walnuts, crushed

1 teaspoon soda in

1 cup boiling water and pour over
dates and nuts.

Cream % cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

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2 eggs
Y, teaspoon salt, and vanilla
1% cups flour
Pour on date and nut mixture. Pour
batter in greased pan and bake 1 hour
about 325° oven. Remove cake and
with a pastry brush, brush the top of
the cake with the following flavoring.
1 teaspoon rum flavoring in 4 table-
spoons water.
Cool cake then ice with butter icing
flavored with rum flavoring.
Mrs. Edith Keel (22)
Past Grand Matron (1950)

DATE CAKE

1 cup chopped dates

1 teaspoon soda

1 egg

1 cup boiling water

% cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

% cup chopped nuts

1 teaspoon vanilla

% teaspoon salt

% teaspoon cinnamon

1% teaspoon allspice

1% teaspoon cloves

Sprinkle soda over dates, add boil-
ing water, butter and sugar. Beat
thoroughly, add beaten egg. Sift to-
gether flour, baking powder, salt and
spices, and sift in. Add vanilla and
nuts. Bake in loaf pan. Use a moderate
temper.ture to bake.
Mrs. Mildred Hoover (38)

DATE ALMOND SQUARES

6 tablespoons butter

% cup sugar

2 eggs yolks

1 teaspoon vanilla

14% cups pastry flour

1 teaspoon baking powder
14 teaspoon salt

14% cups chopped dates

34 cup water —

2 egg whites