Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 28, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 February 1933 — DATES TOOTHSOME, NUTRITIOUS [ARTICLE]

DATES TOOTHSOME, NUTRITIOUS

THE perfect date, colorful, translucent, and altogether delicious, is now an American product, thanks to the untiring effort of our date growers. Arabian dates are still shipped into our country in large quantities, but nothing so far has reached the perfection of the home grown. It will probably be some time be fore we can supply the demand with the home product, for the date is so well liked and is used for confections so largely, as well as for ordinary food. With a handful of nuts and a half dozen dates, a glass of orange juice, one need not worry over calories or hunger. Dates are enjoyed in bread, cake, cookies, chopped with nuts and molded into bars, stuffed with nuts or preserved fruit or fondant; added to salads they give just the note of sweetness that any salad needs. They take the place of raisins or combine with them in desserts of various kinds. Date Pie.--Cook one pound of dates that have been pitted, with one cupful of water and one tablespoonful of lemon juice; cook until a thick paste is formed, then add two tablespoonfuls of orange juice and let stand until cold. Bake a pastry shell and fill with the mixture, top with lightly sweetened cream and serve. As filling for sandwiches to give the children for luncheon, they are perfectly desirable. In stuffed dates, try any or all of the following: Peanut butter moistened with orange juice and a little cream. Use fondant to which chopped cherries, ginger, candied peel has been added. Almonds finely chopped, mixed with a little grated maple sugar and cream to moisten. ©, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.