Old Fashioned Date Nut Loaf Recipe Recipe For Hand Recipe For Zucchini

DATE & NUT LOAF RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Place the nuts, dates, baking soda, salt and butter in a mixing bowl.
• Pour boiling water over it and stir until butter has melted.
• Stand for 15 minutes.
• Grease a loaf tin and line with baking paper.
• Beat the eggs, add the sugar and vanilla.
• Beat well.
• Sift the flour into the egg mixture.
• Add date mixture and mix just till all the ingredients are mixed.
• Pour into the prepared tin and bake for one hour.

OLD FASHIONED DATE LOAF CANDY RECIPE

Steps:

• Boil sugar with milk until it forms a soft ball in water. Pour in dates, boil stirring constantly until dates are dissolved. Remove and add 1 c. of pecans and beat until cool. Pour on wet cloth and wrap up!

DATE AND WALNUT LOAF - FAT FREE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 150°C (300°F).
• Chop dates into small dice and chop walnuts.
• Sift flour baking powder and salt into bowl, mix in the sugar dates and walnuts.
• Lightly beat egg and milk together and stir into mixture.
• Mix well until batter is smooth.
• Cook in prepared loaf tin for approximately 45 - 60 minutes.
• To keep moist, after it's cooled for half an hour or so, drape a clean tea towel over the cake.
• You can slice up all the cake and freeze it wrapped in foil.

GREAT-GRANDMA CATHY'S DATE LOAF CANDY

Steps:

• Stir sugar, milk, and butter together in a saucepan; bring to a boil without stirring once the boiling begins. Heat until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms a rigid ball or until the mixture reaches 250 degrees F (120 degrees C), about 20 minutes. Immediately remove saucepan from heat and stir dates, pecans, and vanilla into the milk mixture.
• Thoroughly wet a piece of cheesecloth and lay out onto a flat work surface. Pour the candy mixture into the middle of the cloth and roll the cloth around it to shape into a log.
• Refrigerate until hard, 8 hours to overnight. Remove log from cloth and slice.

DATE LOAF CANDIES

Steps:

• In a medium sauce pan, mix sugar, dates, butter and milk.
• Cook for 10 - 15 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add walnuts, and vanilla.
• Beat until it thickens.
• Pour onto a cleaned dish towel (NOT TERRY CLOTH). Make sure the towel is wet but not soaking wet--little over damp. Roll it lengthwise and put into fridge until it has completely cooled.
• Unroll the wrap and slice.