Weight of 3 eggs in each sugar and flour. Weight of 2 eggs in butter. 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Grated rind of 1 lemon, or 1 tablespoon marmalade. Put in the 3 eggs.

About thirty dates, halved, stoned and the holes filled with almonds, blanched and halved.

Beat sugar and butter to a cream, add beaten eggs, then flour and baking powder, lastly grated lemon rind.

Put this mixture in tin about eight inches square, and on the top lay dates in rows close together.

Bake about twenty minutes. When cold, turn upside down, as dates will have sunk to the bottom.

Ice with the juice of an orange made stiff with powdered sugar. Mrs. C. Colquhoun,

New Zealand.

Date Cake (Without Eggs)

1 cup sugar 1/2 cup shortening Spice of all kinds 1 cup sour milk

1 teaspoonful of soda

2 cups flour

1 1/2 pounds of dates, stoned and chopped

Mix in the usual way, and bake in a loaf.

Miss Viola Meyer,

Coachella, Oalif.