Date Nut Bread

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1 package pitted dates, chopped

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 cups boiling water

2 tablespoons plain Nyafat or margarine or shortening or oil; tastes

best with the Nyafat

1-1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

3 cups flour, sifted

1-teaspoon vanilla

1 cup walnuts, chopped -- (1/2 lb)

 

 

Preheat oven to 350°F.

 

Cut dates into small pieces if you haven't bought chopped dates.

Sprinkle with baking soda. Add boiling water and allow saturating.

 

Cream sugar with Nyafat, add well-beaten eggs and mix thoroughly. Add

vanilla. Strain liquid from dates and reserve. Pour dates into egg

mixture, add flour, alternating with date liquid, mix thoroughly

after each addition. Mix in nuts.

 

Bake in a loaf pan or several mini-loaf pans for 1 hour or until a

cake tester comes out clean.