Date Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. butter
1 egg, beaten
1 1/2 c. boiling water
2 c. dates, cut up
2 tsp. soda
2 3/4 c. flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. nuts, chopped
salt

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar; add beaten egg to mixture.
Pour boiling water over cut-up dates and add 1 teaspoon of soda to this mixture.
Add alternately with flour, other teaspoon of soda and salt to creamed mixture.
Add nuts last.
Bake in 2 large greased loaf pans in moderate oven (350\u00b0) for 1 hour.
Turn out of pans to cool.
Wrap when cooled.
This keeps well.