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Torte, Apple Date

Source of Recipe

California Date Growers Association, Indio CA


List of Ingredients

1 box Zweiback, finely crushed
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 C sugar

Filling
5 lrg Pippin apples
3 T butter
1/2 C sugar
6 eggs, well beaten
1 pint sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
12-20 lrg dates, cut up


Recipe

Blend Zweiback crumbs with sugar and cinnamon. Cover bottom of buttered 9 inch spring form mold pan with 1/2 of the crumbs.

Filling;
Peel and slice apples thinly. Cook slowly with the butter and sugar 15 minutes in a large skillet. Remove from fire. Beat eggs well, add sour cream and vanilla and add to slightly cooled apples. Cook and stir over low fire until slightly thickened, add dates. Pour into prepared spring form pan and top with reserved crumbs. Dot with butter and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Serves 8-10.