Date Sponge Squares - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/4 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. butter or oleo
1 c. sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. boiling water
2 c. chopped dates
1 c. broken walnuts

Preparation

Mix flour,
baking powder, soda and salt and set aside. Cream butter
and
sugar.
Add
egg and mix well; add vanilla. Pour boiling
water
over
dates
and
cool.
Mix walnuts with flour. Mix
date
mixture alternately with nuts to butter and sugar mixture.
Bake
in\tgreased 9 x 12-inch pan for 30 to 40 minutes in\t350\u00b0
oven.