Title: Queen elizabeth cake 3
 Categories: Cakes, Canadian
      Yield: 6 servings
 
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      1 c  Dates
      1 c  Boiling water
      1 ts Vanilla
    1/4 c  Margarine
      1 c  Sugar
      1    Egg, beaten
  1 1/2 c  Flour
      1 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Salt

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      6 tb Brown sugar
      3 tb Butter
      4 tb Canned milk
      1 c  Coconut
      1 pn Salt
 
  Cook dates, water and vanilla to soft mass.  Cream margarine, sugar
  and egg.  Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture.  Add date mixture.
  Pour into a 9 x 9 greased pan and bake at 325F for 35 minutes.
  
  While cake is baking, put all the topping ingredients into a small
  pot and bring to a boil.  Boil for 3 minutes.  When cake is baked,
  remove from oven, spread topping on it and place under the broiler to
  brown.  Watch carefully, because it could burn. Helen Peagram,
  F-Cooking