Eat like a 1908 mogul: Clara Ford's date bar recipe

I’ve learned volumes at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant Museum in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood.

I learned this pocket of Detroit was the early 20 th Century’s Silicon Valley: A hive of invention and investment, a neighborhood where fortunes were made and lost, home to a looping rail line that carried components from parts factories to auto plants. Finished cars rolled out of more than a dozen automakers to the rest of America.

I didn’t expect a pastry recipe by Clara Ford (born, 1866; died, 1950), women’s suffragist, wife of Henry Ford, great grandmother of current Ford Chairman William Clay Ford Jr. and an electric-car driving pioneer in her own right. More: Learning to drive a Model T is unlike anything else — and fun More: The revolutionary Model T changed America