MAPLE DATE DRESSING -CLASSICS OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACIES
The Classic Grand Americana recipe. The popular American ice-cream and family dessert topping was made in all the pharmacies of the United States of America in 1918 all year. The original recipe of the New England, Boston, and New York pharmacies.
For this original American classic ice-cream- sundae dessert topping of the beginning of the last century you will need:
1 1/2 pound of dates
1/2 gallon of simple syrup
1/2 pounds of citron
1/2 pounds of crystallized ginger
1 ounce of ground English walnuts
MAPLE DATE DRESSING
For this type of dessert topping and dessert sauce, you put soak the 1 and 1/2 pound of pitted dates in the water for several hours and run them through the fruit chopper, after you have drained them. Put them into your cast iron kettle. Add to the pitted dates the simple sugar syrup, just enough to make 1/2 of the gallon and cook until the dates get soft and tender. When serving this topping, finish up the decoration the top of your dessert with a stuffed date, which is prepared by removing the pit from the date, and filling the center of the with a slice of citron, or a slice of a crystallized ginger, sprinkle the dessert with one ounce of the ground English walnuts as desired.