Here’s a hand-printed recipe card on a yellowed index card, date unknown but I’d guess 1960’s. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy of the front side of the card (recipe instructions are on the back).
Brazil Nut Date Cake
3 cups Brazil nuts (2 # unshelled – 1 # shelled)
1 # dates
1 cup (8 oz.) drained maraschino cherries or 4 oz. candied red – 4 oz. gr.
3/4 c. flour
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 t. bkg. pwd.
1/2 t. salt
3 eggs
Put nuts, dates, cherries in bowl. Sift sugar, flour, bkg. pwd., salt over nuts & fruits–mix with hands until coated. Beat eggs until foamy–add vanilla. Pour in greased wax-lined pan. Bake in slow oven, 300° or below 1 hour 45 min.
Put foil over top till the last–also use pan of water in oven below cake.
Pan–9 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/2