Nana's Recipe Tea Cakes and Date Loaf

 

(Recipe recorded by Nell Farrar White 1960's)

Tea Cakes

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp soda disolved in

1/4 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup shortening

1 tsp vanilla

pinch of salt

Flour (mix) to make stiff dough, roll and cut with biscuit cutter. Bake in moderate oven.

Date Loaf

2 cup sugar

1 cup canned milk

1 cup dates

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup nuts

Cook milk and sugar until it forms a firm ball, add dates and recook until it forms a ball in cold water.

Let cool, then add vanilla and nuts. Beat until firm enough to roll in wet cloth and chill. Maybe rolled in crushed nuts or coconut.