Name: Swedish Crumb Cake
Yield: 3 nine-inch cakes
Ingredients: ½ cup Crisco; 2 scant cups sugar; 2 eggs; 1½ cups buttermilk; 1 tsp. baking soda; 1 tsp. baking powder; 3 cups flour; 1 tsp. vanilla; 1 cup dates; 2 cups nuts; 3 Tbsp. flour; 6 Tbsp. brown sugar; butter, for dotting

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Step 1: Cream sugar and Crisco. Add eggs, then the sifted dry ingredients and milk.
Step 2: Stir in nuts and dates.
Step 3: Pour into three greased 9-inch pie pans.
Step 4: Mix 3 Tbsp. flour with 6 Tbsp. brown sugar for each pan, sprinkle evenly over the batter and dot with butter.
Step 5: Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes.

From the cook

Freezes well.

What we changed or couldn’t read (2)

Ingredient lines are cut off in the source: "2 scant cups" (sugar assumed from the method), "1-1/2 cups bu…" (buttermilk assumed; method says "milk"), "1 Tsp Baking…" (baking powder assumed).
Vanilla is listed but not mentioned in the method.

Swedish Crumb Cake

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