Date Bread My Mother’s
She got From Mrs. Gilbert Logan Holcombe Wis.
½ cup sugar
1 tbsp shortening
1 egg
1 cup dates
1 cup hot water
1 ½ cups flour, level cups
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla
¼ tsp salt
Cut the dates in very small pieces and soak in the hot water
Until mixture is lukewarm
Mix adding to the other ingredients
Mix ingredients in order that it is written
Bake in loaf tin
Bake at 350F till done
If top of loaf breaks open when baked, try adding a little less flour
No 2/3- Mrs. Gilbert Logan
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