Date Cake - dates

Method

• Dates,
• nuts and cherries may be left whole if desired. Sift dry ingredients together 3 times, sifting over fruit and nut mixture
• the
• last time.
• Add beaten yolks.
• Fold or work stiffly beaten
• egg
• whites
• to which vanilla has been added. Let
• stand for thirty minutes and mix again.
• Use heavy waxed paper, grease and
• line pan.
• Cover top of cake and place pan of water
• under cake.
• Bake at 250° for over 2 hours.
• Remove cover
• from
• top
• of cake
• during
• last 15 minutes of baking. After
• cake is removed from oven, cool thoroughly in the paper in which
• it
• was baked. Then wrap securely in a second layer of heavy paper (waxed paper is preferred) and tie with twine.