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Date Nut Bread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 1/4 c. flour
2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 c. dates chopped
1 1/2 c. boiling water
1 c. sugar
1 tbsp. melted butter
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. chopped walnuts or pecans
Directions:
Directions:
Add dates to boiling water and let stand 20 minutes. Add melted butter and well beaten egg to sugar. Sift flour, soda and salt together and add alternately with date mixture. Add vanilla and nuts. Bake in well greased loaf pan at 325º about 50 minutes.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is one of the recipes in Aunt Pearl's cookbook. It's called the Town Crier Recipe Book.
300 Lucky Low Cost Prize Winning Recipes. The copyright is 1938, and it was 50 cents for an 80 page cookbook!
(Town Crier was a brand of flour back in the day)

 

 

 

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