Matrimonial Cake

Ingredients

some old cookbooks is called date sandwich cake
1 1/2 c flour
1 1/2 c rolled oats
1 c brown sugar
1/2 ts baking soda
1/4 ts salt
3/4 c butter
2 c dates
1/2 c sugar
1 ts 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