Into a bowl put 1 1/2 cups corn meal 1 cup rye meal 1/2 cup flour

1 teaspoonful baking powder 1 cup each milk and water

2 cups dates which have been steamed and rubbed through a sieve

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon soda

2/3 cup syrup

Pour into a large well greased mould, cover and steam 5 hours. May be cooked in a fireless cooker, or if steamed in smaller moulds, will not require as long a steaming.

Mrs. A. A. Allen,

Coachella, Cal.

Steamed Date Bread No. 2

1 cup rye meal 1 cup corn meal

1 cup barley flour

2 teaspoons soda 1 tablespoon salt

2 cups thick sour milk 2/3 cup molasses

1 cup dates

2 tablespoons melted Crisco

Sift together the meal, flour, soda and salt; add sour milk, molasses and Crisco, and mix thoroughly. Grease three 1-lb. baking powder cans; put in some dates cut in pieces, then dough; add more pieces of dates, then dough, and alternate with dates and dough till all are used. Set to steam with cold water, that the mixture may rise before cooking Steam three hours The water must not stop boiling for at least two hours

Janet McKenzie Hill.