[Sca-cooks] OP: Chocolate Date Nut Cake

[Johnna Holloway]

I'll keep an eye out. It's not in Baking Across America or in my
American Food & Drink Encyclopedia. I need to check those desserts from
the 1950's books.

Johnnae

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote: about a cake-- The batter was made with 
flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and dates, poured into a square pan, 
topped with chocolate chips and chopped walnuts (and granulated sugar, 
but i left that out after making it that way once), and baked.snipped 
There were a number of recipes that were pretty much the same old recipe 
i remembered with very slight variations. mayonnaise. snipped whole 
wheat version with ground flaxseeds, pureed tofu, and fat substitute in 
the batter, sweetened with maple syrup, but it still had cocoa and dates 
in the cake and was topped with chocolate chips and walnuts.-- There was 
a version that won a Texas state fair,

> It was called Cowboy Cake, Traveling Gal's Cake, and, well, 
> Chocolate-Date Cake. It was even featured on the site of a Bed and 
> Breakfast that was known for its cooking.
>
> No site i saw had any information about its origins. I'm curious about 
> its history, even though it's 20th century.
> Anyone here have any ideas? Sorry to be so off topic, but i don't want 
> to join some modern recipe sharing list just for this.
> Anahita
>