Chocolate Date Nut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pkg. chopped dates (8 oz.)
2 tsp. soda
2 c. boiling water
1 stick oleo
2 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. cocoa
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. chopped nuts

Preparation

Mix first 3 ingredients and completely cool.
Cream oleo, sugar and eggs.
Sift together flour, cocoa and salt.
Add vanilla to date mixture and alternate date mixture and flour mixture into sugar.
In last portion of flour, add nuts.
Bake approximately 45 minutes at 350\u00b0.