1 1/2 cups oil or fat 3 to 4 cups brown sugar 1 cup corn syrup 1 1/2 cups milk 10 eggs, well beaten

1 tablespoon cinnamon 2 teaspoons nutmeg 4 tbspns. baking powder 2 quarts barley flour 2 pounds dates

Sift flour and dry ingredients, except sugar. Wash, dry, and stone dates, and cut in pieces. Roll sugar if it is lumpy. Put all ingredients together in mixing pan, and beat three minutes, using spoon with slits, or use cake mixer. Bake in shallow cake pans, in moderate oven, forty to fifty minutes; or in muffin pans thirty to forty minutes.