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Bread-Sweet: Farmhouse Buttermilk Date Nut Bread

Source of Recipe

Vegetarian Fast & Fancy cookbook


List of Ingredients

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chopped dates
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 tablespoon grated orange peel

CREAMY ORANGE GLAZE:
1 tablespoon cream
1/4 cup sifted powdered sugar
2 teaspoons grated orange peel
2 tablespoons finely chopped walnuts


Recipe

Preheat oven to 350�F. Grease two 6x3 inch foil loaf pans. Beat together sugar, butter, egg, buttermilk and vanilla until mixture is blended. Add flour, baking soda and baking powder and beat until blended - do not overbeat. Stir in the dates, walnuts and orange peel. Divide batter between the prepared pans.

Place pans on a cookie sheet and bake in a 350�F oven for 35-40 minutes or until cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean. Allow to cool in pans for 10 minutes, and then remove loaves from pan and continue cooling on a rack. Brush tops lightly with glaze (for glaze, stir together all ingredients until blended). Yields 2 loaves. Freezes well; wrap in double thickness of plastic wrap and then foil. Remove wrappers while defrosting.