Mystery Cake
Dear Aunt Daisy, I have had such a lot of valuable help from your column, that I wonder if you could supply me with a recipe for fudge or mystery cake. It is a biscuit mixture, with dates mixed into it, and iced with chocolate icing. | have tasted it, but cannot get the recipe, and it is delicious to eat!--Timaru. Yes, here is the recipe-as you say, a very delicious and easily made cake, for it is not baked: Put into a saucepan half a pound of butter, half a pound of sugar, and two eggs, and let them dissolve together till like honey. The eggs are wellbeaten first. Then take the pan from the fire and mix in a pound of round wine biscuits, broken small with the rollingpin, but not too fine. Mix in also a tablespoon of cocoa, a cup of chopped walnuts (if liked), a cup of chopped dates, and a little vanilla essence. Stir everything well together (still in the saucepan), and then press into a buttered cake tin. Ice with chocolate icing when cold and do not cut until next day.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 45
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189Mystery Cake New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 45
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