Date Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lb. dates
1 lb. candied cherries
1 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
4 eggs
4 c. pecans
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt

Preparation

Dates,
nuts and cherries may be left whole if desired. Sift dry ingredients together 3 times, sifting over fruit and nut mixture
the
last time.
Add beaten yolks.
Fold or work stiffly beaten
egg
whites
to which vanilla has been added. Let
stand for thirty minutes and mix again.
Use heavy waxed paper, grease and
line pan.
Cover top of cake and place pan of water
under cake.
Bake at 250\u00b0 for over 2 hours.
Remove cover
from
top
of cake
during
last 15 minutes of baking. After
cake is removed from oven, cool thoroughly in the paper in which
it
was baked. Then wrap securely in a second layer of heavy paper (waxed paper is preferred) and tie with twine.