Date Nut Bread

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Fran Klinkel Cleland

ingredients

  • 2 C boiling water
  • 1 pkg. pitted chopped dates
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 C sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 T melted butter
  • 1 tsp sale
  • 4 C flour
  • Need: 5 greased vegetable cans
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 C chopped pecans or walnuts

directions

  • 1

    Preheat oven to 350°

  • 2

    Sprinkle baking soda over dates. Pour boiling water over the dates and baking soda. Let stand until cool.

  • 3

    Blend sugar and melted butter. Mix together eggs, flour, salt, vanilla and chopped nuts.

  • 4

    Add date mixture and sugar mixture to flour mixture. Blend well.

  • 5

    Pour into the 5 greased vegetable cans. Stand cans up on cookie sheet or jelly roll pan to bake. Bake for 1 hour or until cake tester comes out clean.

  • 6

    After cook, remove from cans and wrap tightly in Saran wrap, then aluminum foil.

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