Mom's nut and date cake

1 Cake

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 cups Sugar
1½ cup Butter
1 quart Pecan halves
1 quart Dates, chopped
3 cups Flour
Eggs, as needed (5-7)
2 tablespoons Vanilla extract

Directions

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 - 1½ hours.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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