Date Nut Bread

Ingredients

• 1 C. Chopped Dates
• 1 C. Sugar
• 1 C. Boiling Water
• 1 C. Chopped Nuts
• 1 tsp. Soda
• 1 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1 Tb. Butter
• + tsp. Salt
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
• 2c. Flour

Method

1. 1

   Add water to soda.

2. 2

   Pour over dates.

3. 3

   Cream butter, sugar and egg.

4. 4

   Add dates.

5. 5

   Sift flour, salt and baking powder.

6. 6

   Add to mixture.

7. 7

   Add nuts and vanilla.

8. 8

   Pour into well greased loaf pan.

9. 9

   Let stand 5 minutes.

10. 10

    Bake in 325° oven for 1 hour.

11. 11

    Do not remove from pan until cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Our favorite recipes (Wilshire Ward LDS, 1957) (1957) by Maude Frances Smeath Weight, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DATE NUT BREAD 1 Full C. Dates 1 tsp. Soda 1 C. Boiling Water Mix together. 2 Tb. Butter + tsp. Salt 4 C. Sugar tsp. Baking Powder iCe Nuts 1 3/4 Cc. Flour 1 Egg, slightly beaten. Bake in loaf for 1 hour (325°). - Mrs. Harvey H. Sessions - 17 DATE AND NUT BREAD 14 C. White Flour 1 C. Sliced Dates 5 tsp. Baking Powder 1 C. coarsely chopped Nuts 13 tsp. Salt 1 C. Brown Sugar + tsp. Baking Soda 14 C. Milk 13 C. Whole Wheat Flour + C. Molasses Method: Pit dates, cut in slices. Sift flour, measure and sift again with baking soda, salt, and baking powder. Add sugar, milk and molasses, whole wheat flour in which dates and nuts have been dredged. Beat until thoroughly mixed. Pour into well-oiled loaf pan. Bake in moderate oven (375°) 1 hour. - Evelyn Anderson = VERY SPECIAL DATE-NUT BREAD 4 C. cut up Dates 4 C. Shortening 2 C. broken nuts 14 C. firmly packed brown sugar 2C. boiling Water and 4 C. Sifted Cake Flour 2/3 C. Cold Water 1 tsp. Salt 2 Eggs 2 tsp. Baking soda Method: Put y kettle on to boil, and set your oven at moderate (350°). Grease four small bread pans and flour lightly, but evenly. Dump our remaining flour. Cut or chop your dates into small pieces and break up the nuts by hand in not too small pieces. Pour 2 C. boiling water over date and nut mixture and let stand while you mix the batter. Cream shortening, add sugar gradually (sift sugar if lumpy). Sift flour and salt twice. Break eggs, one at a time, into shortening and sugar mixture and beat hard after each. Add soda to date and nut mixture and stir flour and fruit alternately into batter. Stir gently - mix quickly. Now stir 2/3 C. water in and pour into pans and bake 45 minutes or until toothpick comes out dry from center of loaf. Turn out of pans and cool. - Mrs. S. H. McMurrin - NUT BREAD 1 C. Sugar 2c. Flour 1 C. Milk 1 C. Nuts, chopped 2 tsp. Baking Powder Pinch of Salt Method: Mix altogether and put in greased pag. let stand 20 minutes. Bake approximately 1 hour in 350 oven. 18 - Alma M. Yeend - DATE NUT BREAD 1 C. Chopped Dates 1 C. Sugar 1 C. Boiling Water 1 C. Chopped Nuts 1 tsp. Soda 1 Egg 1 tsp. Baking Powder 1 Tb. Butter + tsp. Salt 1 tsp. Vanilla

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