Date Nut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/4 c. boiling water
1 1/4 c. (8 oz.) dates, cut up
1 tsp. baking soda
2 1/4 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 1/3 c. sugar
2/3 c. Crisco
2 eggs
1/2 pecans, cut up

Preparation

Pour water over dates; stir in baking soda and set aside to cool.
Sift together flour and salt.
Cream sugar and Crisco together.
Add
eggs one at a time.
Add dry ingredients alternately
with
date mixture.
Stir in pecans.
Bake in a greased tube pan.
Bake at 350\u00b0 about 1 hour.