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Posted on: Wednesday, March 29, 2006

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Share these recipes for nostalgia?

By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Columnist

•	Juicy secrets

This long spell of rain seems to have sent people indoors to cook. Lots of requests coming in:

Mrs. Tyau's tomato-based salad dressing. Shirley T. Okino wants this recipe, as served at St. Louis High School in the 1950s, for her brother, who says the boys put it on anything edible back in those days.

Wong and Wong's Minute Chicken with Cake Noodle. The restaurant is gone but Amy Chinaka is craving this dish — anybody got a good minute chicken recipe?

Kaiulani Elementary toast snack. Now, this one intrigues me and I bet we'll never find out the secret, but here goes. Patty Fujimoto is looking for the recipe for a morning snack she recalls from small-kid time: It was a kind of toast, cut on the diagonal, spread with peanut butter or something crunchy sweet on both sides and puffy, as though perhaps it had been fried, but not greasy. You only got half a slice with a juice and people would line up. Sounds like some form of baked french toast. Darn, those cafeteria ladies had their ways, didn't they?

A while back at a Soroptimists' meeting I attended, Caroline Spencer asked me to find a chocolate-chip date nut cake recipe. I got busy and forgot but had time to research it last week. This is a very popular recipe, with many versions on the Internet, some for the microwave, some for the conventional oven. All involve a date-studded batter topped with chocolate chips, sugar and nuts, which melt into the cake as it bakes. This one comes from allrecipes.com and is said to be quite rich.

CHOCOLATE-CHIP DATE NUT CAKE

1 cup dates, pitted and chopped

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup water

1 cup white sugar

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup mayonnaise

1 pinch salt

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-by-13-inch baking pan (or spray with Baker's Joy or similar flour-fat spray).

Bring water to a boil. In a large bowl, combine chopped dates, baking soda and boiling water. Cool, then stir in sugar, flour, mayonnaise and salt. Pour batter into prepared pan. In a small bowl, mix the brown sugar, chopped nuts, and chocolate chips together. Sprinkle over top of batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Makes 12 servings.

Per serving: 370 calories, 20 g fat, 3.5 g saturated fat, 10 mg cholesterol, 240 mg sodium, 50 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 40 g sugar, 2 g protein

Send recipes and queries to Wanda A. Adams, Food Editor, Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. Fax: 525-8055. E-mail: wadams@honoluluadvertiser.com.

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