Recipe - Beer Can Date Bread

8 Empty beer cans
2 tablespoon Soda
1 cup Dates
2 cup Beer
3 tablespoon Butter
1 cup Maple syrup
1 tablespoon Vanilla
2 Eggs
4 cup Whole wheat pastry flour
1 cup Pecans

Remove tops from beer cans with can opener; lightly oil insides. Sprinkle
soda on dates. Heat beer to boiling and pour over date/soda mixture; set
aside to cool. Cream together butter, maple syrup, vanilla, and eggs. Stir
in flour. Add nuts and cooled date mixture. Spoon batter into cans,
filling only One half full. Bake with cans standing up on cookie sheet, at 350
degrees for 1530 minutes; look for tops to split and test for doneness. Do
not cut bread for 1 day; bread may break up, if it is cut or sliced up while still
warm.

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