Date Nut Bread

Recipe for Date Nut Bread

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Recipe for Date Nut Bread

   Ingredients required
2 cups boiling water
4 cups dates, cut up
4 cups of sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup brown sugar (good measure)
2 eggs
2 teaspoons soda
2 cups broken nuts

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Date Nut Bread Recipe

   Pour boiling water over dates, let stand. Sift flour and salt. Cream shortening, sugar and eggs. Add soda and date mixture. Add this and flour to creamed mixture. Stir in nuts. Put in two well greased bread pans. Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour. Test carefully for doneness then cool on cake rack.
Makes two loaves.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.

Recipe for Date Nut Bread