Mix the butter and sugar and add the beaten eggs and milk. Sift the dry ingredients and add them to the liquid mixture, reserving enough flour to coat the dates and nuts. Add them and the vanilla. Bake in a shallow greased pan in a very slow oven (250°F.) for 1 hour 45 minutes, until set in the center. Cut in squares and serve with whipped cream.
Pumpkin Pie
1½ cups cooked pumpkin. 1 cup milk. ½ cup sugar. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. ½ teaspoon salt. ½ teaspoon allspice. ¼ teaspoon mace. 2 eggs. 1 tablespoon butter.
Put all the ingredients, except the eggs and the butter, in the double boiler. Bring to the scalding point. Beat eggs well; stir a small amount of hot mixture into the eggs; stir egg mixture into the remaining hot mixture. Stir until it starts to thicken. Add the butter. Line a pie pan with pastry and bake until light brown. Pour the hot filling into a baked crust. Bake the pie in a moderately hot oven (400°F.) until the filling sets.
Applesauce Cake
1 cup sugar. ½ cup fat. 1 cup applesauce, unsweetened. 1 cup raisins, chopped. 2 tablespoons flour. ½ teaspoon cloves. ½ teaspoon cinnamon. ¼ teaspoon nutmeg. 2½ cups sifted cake flour. 1 teaspoon soda mixed with 2 tablespoons water. ½ teaspoon salt.
Cream the sugar and fat, add the applesauce and the soda which has been dissolved in the water. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add them, with the floured raisins, to the first mixture. Beat well, pour into a greased pan, and bake in a moderate oven (350°F.) for about 35 minutes.