Very Special Date-Nut Bread

Ingredients

• 4 C. cut up Dates
• 4 C. Shortening
• 2 C. broken nuts
• 14 C. firmly packed brown sugar
• 2C. boiling Water
• 4 C. Sifted Cake Flour
• 2/3 C. Cold Water
• 2 Eggs
• 2 tsp. Baking soda
• 1 tsp. Salt

Method

1. 1

   Put kettle on to boil, and set your oven at moderate (350°).

2. 2

   Grease four small bread pans and flour lightly, but evenly.

3. 3

   Cut or chop your dates into small pieces and break up the nuts by hand in not too small pieces.

4. 4

   Pour 2 C. boiling water over date and nut mixture and let stand while you mix the batter.

5. 5

   Cream shortening, add sugar gradually (sift sugar if lumpy).

6. 6

   Sift flour and salt twice.

7. 7

   Break eggs, one at a time, into shortening and sugar mixture and beat hard after each.

8. 8

   Add soda to date and nut mixture and stir flour and fruit alternately into batter.

9. 9

   Stir gently - mix quickly.

10. 10

    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.

11. 11

    Turn out of pans and cool.

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.

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

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