Date Mold Recipe

Instructions

1. Wash and soak a pound of dates in four cups of cold water for two hours.
2. Drain off the water, strain it, and put it into a saucepan with one and one- half cups of granulated sugar.
3. Stir until the sugar is dissolved.
4. Stone the dates and add them to the syrup.
5. Cook until they are tender.
6. Just before removing from the fire stir in half a box of gelatine soaked in half a cup of cold water for half an hour, and the juice of one lemon.
7. Stir over the fire until the gelatine is all dissolved, then turn into a wetted mold and set in a cold place to harden for at least twelve hours.
8. Serve with whipped cream garnished with walnut meats heaped round the base of the mold.