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Categories: Bread - Baked - Side - Sweet
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Ingredients

Ingredient Amount Notes
Dates 1 cup  
Water 1 1/2 cups Boiling
Eggs 2 Beaten light
Sugar 1 1/2 cups  
Flour 2 1/4 cups + extra Sifted
Baking Soda 2 tsp  
Baking Powder 1/4 tsp  
Salt 1/2 tsp  
Butter 2 Tbsp Melted
Vanilla 1 tsp  
Nuts   Floured and Chopped

Method

  1. Prheat oven to 325F
  2. Cut up dates
  3. Boil 1 1/2 cups water and cover dates in boiling water
  4. Let dates soak for 10 minutes
  5. Beat eggs until light
  6. Add sugar to eggs and cream together
  7. Mix together sifted flour, baking sode, baking powder, and salt
  8. Add dry ingredients together alternating to egg mixture alternating with liquid from dates
  9. Melt butter and add to batter
  10. Add vanilla
  11. Fold in pieces of dates
  12. Chop and flour nuts and fold in
  13. Line pan with well greeased parchment paper (see modern notes)
  14. Bake 1 to 1 1/4 hours

Notes From Gran

Modern Notes

  • The original recipe calls for lining the pan with “well greased heavy wax paper” but wax paper, even heavy wax paper is not oven safe. I transcribed as parchment paper since that serves the purpose and is actually intended for oven use
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