Recipe - Date And Walnut Loaf

6 ounce Dates, stoned, chopped
1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of soda
One fourth pt Boiling water(150ml)
8 ounce Flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1 ounce Margarine
3 ounce Caster sugar
3 tablespoon Golden syrup
1 Egg, beaten
2 ounce Walnuts, chopped

Put the dtaes in a bowl and stir in the bicarbonate of soda and boiling
water. Leave to soak until required. Sift the flour and salt into a bowl.
In another bowl cream together the margarine, sugar and syrup. Beat the egg
into the creamed mixture, then add the flour, walnuts and date mixture and
mix well. Divide between two greased and lined 1lb loaf tins and bake in a
preheated cool oven(300F) for 1hr.15 min.

Recipe by: The Women's Institute Posted to bakeryshoppe digest V1 Number
015 by "Jazzbel" jazzbel@grouper.batelnet.bs on Apr 7, 1997