Date nut bread Mom’s)

 

Date Nut Bread  (my mother’s) . Note for GF used King Arthur measure for measure gf flour. I did add 3/4 teaspoon of xanthan gum which might not have been needed, It cooked in 60 minutes in my regular oven,

  

1 egg

1  cup sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 Tablespoon melted Crisco or butter

1.5 cups shifted flour ( see above for gf)

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup diced dates pitted

    soak in 1 cup of boiling water for 20 minutes

1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Beat egg, add sugar, salt and melted Crisco or butter.  Mix well.

Sift flour and baking soda into egg mixture, mix untill clumpy and mixed well then add dates and liquid (the 1 cup of previously boiling water already in dates). Add the nuts and vanilla and mix well.

Pour into a buttered and floured bread pan and cook at 325 for 60 minutes in a convection oven or 75 minutes in normal oven.

Note- 60 minutes in my oven- if gets too brown can cover loosely with foil.

Let it cool 45 minutes.  It should freely dump out of the bread pan.( Note: I cooled 10 or 15 minutes on a rack and then removed it from pan after loosing edges. Then I let it cool before slicing.)

Slice and spread with butter and eat!