Date Bread
1 cup dates,
1 cup boiling water,
1 and ¾ cups of plain flour,
4oz caster sugar,
1 tbs marg,
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda,
1 tsp baking powder,
1 egg,
pinch of salt,
vanilla.
Cut up dates and cover with boiling water and add bicarbonate of soda. Cream marg and sugar and then add the egg. Add to this dates, flour, baking soda and vanilla. Mix. Pour into greased loaf tin. Bake 1 hour at 150 C.
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