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Date-and-Nut Bread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
¾ C. chopped walnuts
1 C. cut-up pitted dates
1 ½ t. baking soda
½ t. salt
3 T. shortening
¾ C. boiling water
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla extract
1 C. granulated sugar
1 ½ C. sifted all-purpose flour
Directions:
Directions:
With fork, mix walnuts, dates, soda, salt. Add shortening, water; let stand 20 minutes. Start heating oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 9 x 5 x 3” loaf pan. With fork, beat eggs; beat in vanilla, sugar, flour. Mix in date mixture until just blended; turn into pan. Bake 1 hr. 5 min., or until cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 min.; remove to wire rack to finish cooling. Then wrap in foil. Store overnight before slicing.
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Personal Notes:
Notes to family:

This is one of the three “Christmas gift basket” breads that I baked in individual loaf pans and gave as gifts. The gift baskets were accompanied by bottles of Wassail or containers of hot chocolate mix - always a hit!

Taken from the 1963 Good Housekeeping Cookbook

 

 

 

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