Wonder Cake

This is from my mums friend Joan, she was a great friend of my mums, she had 8 children. They owned the farm behind the village where I grew up, got into a lot of trouble sliding down their hills, ha ha ha.

The ingredients:
1 cup of Sugar
1 ½ cups of regular flour
1 cup chopped of dates
1 desert spoon of cocoa
1 teaspoon of malt vinegar
1 teaspoon of baking soda
¼ Lb of butter
½ cup of chopped walnuts
½ cup of milk
Pinch of salt

What you have to do to make it into a cake:

Cream the butter and sugar then add the dates, walnuts, flour, cocoa and vinegar.

Dissolve the baking soda in the milk and add it to the mixture.

Make sure it is all mixed together well.

Pour this into a well greased round cake tin and bake in a medium oven (350 degrees) for 40 – 45 minutes.

Turn the oven off and let it sit there for another 5 minutes.

Don’t what ever you do eat it hot, I can tell you now that you won’t stop, ok.

Chocolate frosting is real nice on this, if you put it on while the cake is still quite warm, it oozes down into it and when the frosting sets, it has become as one with the cake.