Date Cake
Old Binder typed card with full method
Ingredients
- 1 cup maple syrup
- ½ cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon soda
- 2 cups dates
Directions
- Beat all to-gether until creamy. Bake in loaf pan in 350 degree oven about 35 minutes.
Timing: about 35 minutes
Temperature: 350 degree oven
Equipment: loaf pan
Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 cup maple syrup; 3 teaspoon Baking Powder; ¼ teaspoon soda
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups date
Directions
- Bake in loaf pan. 350 degree. Until done.
Timing: Until done.
Temperature: 350 degree.
Equipment: loaf pan; oven
Arwilda’s changes
- Changed “lard” to “shortening”
Compare the cards
Mixing and bake endpoint
- Old Binder typed card with full method
- Beat all together until creamy; bake in a loaf pan in a 350-degree oven about 35 minutes.
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- Bake in loaf pan, 350 degree, until done; no mixing method or clock duration is supplied.
Shortening line
- Old Binder typed card with full method
- 1/2 cup shortening
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- 1/2 cup lard, with lard crossed out and shortening written as the final reading
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