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Joy of Cooking - DATE BARS I
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From the Joy of Cooking Cookbook 1943 addition.
This delicious date bar remains soft and fresh for a long time.
This delicious date bar remains soft and fresh for a long time.
Servings: About 42 two and a half by one inch bars
Servings: About 42 two and a half by one inch bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups chopped dates
- 1 cup broken nut meats
- 1 scant cup bread flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon cloves
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Confectioner's sugar
Steps
- subheading: Sift:
- 1 cup sugar
- Beat until light: 3 eggs
- Add the sugar gradually. Blend these ingredients until they are very light.
- subheading: Add about:
- 2 cups chopped dates
- 1 cup broken nut meats
- subheading: Sift before measuring:
- 1 scant cup bread flour
- subheading: Resift with:
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- subheading: If spices are desired add:
- ¼ teaspoon cloves
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
- subheading: Add the sifted ingredients to the egg mixture with:
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Beat the batter until the ingredients are well blended. Pour it into a 9 x 13 inch pan lined with buttered
- paper. Bake it in a moderate oven 325° for about 25 minutes. When the cake is cool cut it into bars. Roll
- them in: Confectioner's sugar
Notes
- I believe this is the date bar recipe that Ila made in 1959 to take on our big vacation. I remember a large Tupperware cake tub of these dates going with up in our Oldsmobile. We ate them at least as far as Devils Tower. Mom fed some to the prairie dogs. I think I remember them getting somewhat dried out by the time we finished them.