Matrimonial Cake

Ingredients

some old cookbooks is called date sandwich cake
190 gr flour
230 gr rolled oats
220 gr brown sugar
2 gr baking soda
1 gr salt
170 gr butter
290 gr dates
100 gr sugar
5 ml lemon juice
30 s recipes was extremely swee todays versions reduce the sugar in the filling
1/2 onto bottom
350 oven

Instructions

MAKES: 36 SQUARES VARIATION: Mincemeat Squares : Use 2 cups mincemeat instead of date filling. SOURCE: _A Century of Canadian Home Cooking: 1900 Through the 90s" by Carol Ferguson and Margaret Fraser