Date Rocks
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Date Rocks

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup lard, and butter mixed
  • 1/2 teaspoon powdered cloves
  • 1 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 cup dates, cut fine
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup nut meats, cut fine
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions

  1. Cream the butter and lard, add the sugar, and mix well.
  2. Add the two eggs well beaten.
  3. Mix and sift thoroughly the flour, baking powder, salt, cloves and cinnamon.
  4. Add the dates and nuts.
  5. Stir these dry ingredients into the first mixture.
  6. Add the vanilla.
  7. Mix thoroughly and drop from the end of the spoon upon a well larded and floured baking pan.
  8. Bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Bread

Ingredients: sugar, cinnamon, lard, clove, flour, vanilla, baking powder, date, egg, nut meat, salt

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, oven, egg beater, sifter

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