Date Nut Loaf

Recipe Ingredients

1 cup	237ml	Boiling water
1 cup	146g / 5.1oz	Dates - chopped
1/2		Unsalted butter
1/2 cup	80g / 2.8oz	Packed brown sugar (dark)
1/4 cup	49g / 1.7oz	White sugar
1		Egg
1 3/4 cups	109g / 3.8oz	Flour
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Baking soda
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Baking powder
3/4 cup	109g / 3.8oz	Coarsely pecans - chopped

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease 8 x 4" loaf pan-line bottom with wax paper.

Pour boiling water over dates--let soften. With el mixer, or by hand, beat butter until creamy in large bowl. Gradually beat in the sugars and cream well; beat in the egg. Beat in the dates and their liquid (at lowest speed).

Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and soda and add gradually, on lowest speed to the creamed mixture; stir in the nuts. Turn into greased loaf pan.

Bake in center of oven 45 min., or until cake tester inserted in middle of loaf comes out clean. Cool loaf in pan on rack for 10 minutes and turn out on rack to cool. Wrap airtight--will keep for at least a week, refrigerated. Longer storage, freeze.

Source:
Mrs. W Whitehead, Llandudno, Wales

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