Read this one with the card open. Something on it is illegible, missing or ambiguous. It is transcribed exactly as written — nothing has been guessed or filled in — and every uncertainty is marked below.
Summary
A two-loaf date nut bread built on a boiling-water-and-baking-soda date soak, attributed to "Dorothy Fry[surname illegible]" — a full recipe with a bake time and temperature already given.
Ingredients
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 2 c. boiling water
- 1 pkg. dates, cut up (the quantity unit is ambiguous in the handwriting — could read "1 pkg." or "1 lb."; transcribed as written)
- 2 c. sugar
- 2 Tbl. melted butter
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 1 tsp. salt
- 3 c. flour
- 1 c. nuts
Method
- Pour hot water over dates and baking soda; then cool.
- Add butter to sugar, then eggs, flour, and salt.
- Add cooled date mixture.
- Add nuts.
- Will make two loaves (as noted on the card).
- Bake 1 hr. at 325°F.
Notes on the artifact
Handwritten in blue ink on ruled paper, with scattered brown spotting/staining across the page; otherwise fully legible aside from the attribution surname. Attribution reads "(from Dorothy Fry[illegible])" at the bottom, kept with the illegibility marked rather than guessed at.
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