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Grandma Sallie's Date Nut Bread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:

1 cup sugar
1 cup dates, cut fine
2 tbs butter
1 tsp salt
1 cup water, boiling

1 egg
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda

1 cup broken walnut pieces
¼ cup flour

Loaf pans
Directions:
Directions:
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350º

Combine sugar, dates, butter and salt in a mixing bowl
Pour boiling water over dates mixture and let cool.

Meanwhile, mix flour and baking soda together in a second mixing bowl
Combine ¼ cup flour and walnuts in separate bowl

Once water has cooled, add in flour/baking soda mixture
Add beaten egg and combine

Add nuts and flour mixture to bowl with other combined ingredients
Grease loaf pans and pour mixture into pan(s)
Bake for 1 hour


Slice and serve with cream cheese or butter
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Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
Maybe 2 loaves?
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
A long time
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Grandma Sallie credits her Aunt Alice (I will guess from her Wheaton side, rather than the Schmidt side of her family) for this recipe and marks the date as 1944.



Grandma Sallie always brought a loaf of date nut bread to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. She would slice it onto special plates she brought, and set it out with cream cheese.

I love this date nut bread. So much so that Grandma Sallie used to bake it for me as a birthday present after the holidays.

I tried to carry on the tradition, but found this very hard to make! I spilled some of the raw dough all over the recipe card she gave me. Mixing by hand almost finished my experiment. I managed to bake enough to give at Christmas one year, but I have not made it since. I think I should try again soon. I know everyone misses it.

 

 

 

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