English Walnut Date Cake

Ingredients

• 2 pounds dates, pitted and chopped
• 2 pounds English walnuts, coarsely chopped
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 egg yolks
• 4 egg whites

Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.

In a large bowl, combine dates, walnuts, sugar, baking powder and flour. Stir in egg yolks. In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold the whites into the fruit/nut mixture until no streaks remain. Spoon into prepared pan.

Bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.