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Date Muffins

1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup milk 2 cups white flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 pound dates 4 teaspoons baking powder Put the dates in cold water. Remove the seeds, and then wash in hot water. Cut in small pieces. Currants or raisins may be used if preferred. Sift the baking powder, salt and flour together. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the milk and the flour alternately, and lastly, fold in the chopped dates. Bake in buttered muffin tins twenty to twenty-five minutes in hot oven.