Recipe - Honey Date Nut Breads

3 cup Allpurpose flour
2 teaspoon Doubleacting baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
1 Stick unsalted butter;
softened (One half cup)
1 cup Honey
1 One half teaspoon Vanilla
2 lg Eggs
1 One fourth cup Buttermilk
2 One half cup Chopped dried dates tossed
with 1
; tablespoon allpurpose
flour
2 cup Chopped pecans or walnuts

Into a bowl sift together the flour, the baking powder, the baking soda,
and the salt. In a large bowl with an electric mixer cream the butter with
the honey and beat in the vanilla, the eggs, 1 at a time, and the
buttermilk. Add the flour mixture, beat the batter until it is just
combined, and stir in the dates and the pecans. Divide the batter among 5
buttered and floured loaf pans, each 5 Three fourths by 3 One fourth by 2 inches, and bake
the breads in the middle of a preheated 350F. oven for 40 to 45 minutes, or
until a tester comes out clean. Remove the breads from the pans and let
them cool, right sides up, on a rack. The breads keep, wrapped well in
plastic wrap and foil, chilled for 1 week or frozen for 1 month.

Makes 5 small loaves.

Gourmet December 1990

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