Mom’s Nut And Date Cake

Side by side with the immutability and invincibility of God’s decrees, Scripture plainly teaches that man is a responsible creature and answerable for his actions. And if our thoughts are formed from God’s Word the maintenance of the one will not lead to the denial of the other. That there is a real difficulty in defining where the one ends and the other begins, is freely granted. This is ever the case where there is a conjunction of the Divine and the human.

A.W. Pink

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Cakes, Mom	1	Cake

INGREDIENTS

4	c	Sugar
1 1/2	c	Butter
1	qt	Pecan halves
1	qt	Dates, chopped
3	c	Flour
		Eggs, as needed 5-7
2	T	Vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare a large tube pan; line the bottom with brown paper and grease
the pan and lining.  Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.  Cut butter and
sugar together until it resembles cornmeal. Cover the  pecans and dates
with the flour (in large bowl); rub together so all  pieces are
well-floured.  Dump sugar and butter on top; mix. Break in  whole eggs
(fewest possible) until you have the a wet mass, but not a  batter. Add
vanilla extract, and pour into prepared cake pan. Bake  until done, 1 -
1 1/2    hours.  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at
www.synapse.com/~gemini

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