Date Pudding - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. dates, chopped
1 tsp. soda
1 c. boiling water
1 egg, beaten
3 Tbsp. melted butter
1 c. sugar
1 1/2 c. flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 c. chopped nuts
1 tsp. vanilla
cooked vanilla pudding*
bananas
crumb cake
topping**

Preparation

*Put two boxes of cooked vanilla pudding if you use one cake and four if you use two in layers.