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Ingredients:
1 cup dates
1 tsp. soda
3/4 cup boiling water
1 egg (separated)
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
11/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsP. salt
1/2 cup walnuts (chopped)
Directions:
Sprinkle dates with soda, pour the boiling water over the mixture and let stand until cool. Break egg yolk into a bowl, beat, add sugar gradually, add vanilla. Combine with date mixture. Sift into mixture the flour, baking powder and salt, and mix in. Do NOT beat. Pour into greased 8 x 4 x 3 loaf tin. Bake about 75 minutes in moderate oven (350 degrees). Better when one day old. Keep covered.
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