Awesome Date Nut Bread Food

OLD-FASHIONED DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Pour boiling water over dates and let sit for 15 minutes.
• Beat sugar, egg and oil for 3 minutes on high speed of mixer.
• Blend in date mixture and vanilla.
• Combine flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder.
• Add dry mixture, alternately with yogurt, to beaten mixture.
• Blend well.
• Stir in nuts.
• Pour batter into 4 greased mini loaf pans (3 1/4 x 5 3/4")
• Use about 1 cup batter for each pan.
• They should look about half full.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until cake taster comes out clean.
• Cool on wire rack.

DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Combine baking soda with the boiling water. Soak the dates in the water and baking soda solution for 30 minutes.
• Cream sugar and butter together. Add eggs, vanilla, dates, nuts, flour, and salt.
• Divide batter equally between two 9 x 5 (or 8 1/2 x 4 1/2) inch greased loaf pans. Bake 1 hour at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) (or until loaf tests done). Can be frozen when cool.

FAVORITE DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Prepare a loaf pan by spraying with cooking spray.
• Combine dates, nuts and raisins; sprinkle with baking soda.
• Pour 1 cup of boiling water over all of this.
• Cover the bowl and set aside while mixing remaining ingredients.
• In another bowl, with a pastry blender, mix the flours, sugar, Splenda, baking powder, egg and egg white.
• Combine the date mixture with the flour mixture, mix well.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted off center comes out clean.

MOIST DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees F). Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a medium bowl, combine the dates and butter. Pour boiling water over them, and let stand until cool.
• When the dates have cooled, stir the mixture to break up any clumps. Mix in the brown sugar and egg until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; stir into the date mixture until just blended. Stir in walnuts. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 50 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean.

CLASSIC MOIST DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Heat the oven to 350 F. Grease a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan.
• In a medium bowl, pour the boiling water over the chopped dates. Add the butter and set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat the sugar, brown sugar, and egg with a mixer until light.
• In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture, alternating with the date and water mixture.
• Stir in the chopped nuts with a spoon.
• Pour into the loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 55 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

AWESOME DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, combine the dat, water and butter. Let stand for 5 minutes.
• 2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, walnuts,and baking soda.
• 3. In a small bowl, combine the eggs, vanilla and date mixture. Stir into dry ingredients. Do not drain the water out of the dates. Stir until well blended.
• 4. Pour into two 8 in. x 4 in. loaf pans. Bake at 375 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cover loosely with foil if the top browns too quickly. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire rack

DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Lightly spray or butter your 9x5 loaf pan and, if desired, line it with a sling of parchment paper so you can remove the loaf easily for slicing.
• Put the dates, butter, baking soda, salt and brown sugar in a mixing bowl.
• Cover with the hot coffee.
• Stir and let it sit for 15 minutes.
• Whisk in the egg, extract, brandy, and baking powder. Fold in the flour and mix well.
• Fold in the walnuts.
• Transfer to your loaf pan and spread out evenly.
• Bake for 45-55 minutes. I cover with foil after 30 minutes to prevent the top from getting too brown. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out without wet batter on it. Moist crumbs are fine.
• Let cool on a rack for 15 minutes, then remove from pan to cool completely before slicing.
• If you don't plan on eating right away, don't slice, just wrap the cooled bread in plastic and store on the counter or in the fridge.
• To freeze, let cool completely, then wrap in plastic, and then in foil. Use within 3 months.

DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F and butter a 9 x 5 loaf pan.
• In a bowl, pour hot water over dates and butter.
• Stir and let the mix stand until lukewarm.
• In a food processor, puree 1/3 of the date mixture to make a paste.
• Stir paste back into date bowl mixture.
• Add brown sugar, molasses, vanilla, and eggs.
• Mix until combined.
• In another bowl, sift the all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
• Add whole wheat flour and mix well.
• Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the date mixture.
• Stir until well combined.
• Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes until loaf top has risen.
• Remove bread from the oven and cool in the pan on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes before turning out.

DATE NUT SPICE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter the bottom of an 8 1/2 by 4 1/2 by 2 1/2-inch loaf pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pan.
• Combine the dates and orange liqueur in a small bowl and set aside for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and brown sugar together on medium speed for 1 minute. Scrape down the bowl. With the mixer on low, add the egg, vanilla, and orange zest. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. With the mixer still on low, add the flour mixture alternately with the orange juice to the creamed mixture, beating only until combined. By hand, stir in the dates with their liquid, and the pecans.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and smooth the top. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
• Meanwhile, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the cream cheese, sugar, and orange zest on medium speed until just combined.
• Slice the bread and serve with the orange cream cheese on the side for spreading.

DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350.
• Grease an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3 inch loaf pan.
• Put the dates, walnuts, baking soda, salt and shortening in a bowl. Pour the boiling water over and stir. Let the mixture stand for 15 minutes.
• Using a fork, beat the eggs and sugar together in a bowl. Add the flours and stir; the batter will be too stiff to mix well. Add the date mixture and mix briskly until the batter is well blended. Spoon into the loaf pan and bake 40 to 50 minutes. Check the loaf often; it is done when a few moist crumbs cling to a straw inserted in the middle of the loaf. The bread will continue to bake after it is removed from the oven. Do not overbake, or the loaf will be dry.
• When the loaf is done, slide a knife around the edges of the pan and turn the loaf onto a rack to cool completely. This bread freezes well.

OLD-FASHIONED DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• You will need two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 metal loaf pans. For glass loaf pans of the same size, reduce the oven temperature for baking by 25 degrees F. *See Note 2 below for information on using other pan sizes.
• Preheat oven to 350F (regular bake/not fan assisted).
• Grease the loaf pans lightly, then line with parchment paper, covering the bottom and the long sides and extending over the edges a couple of inches, to use as handles to remove the loaves later.
• Soak the dates: Add the chopped dates to a medium bowl. Pour boiling water overtop and stir in baking soda. baking soda. Let stand 10-15 minutes, to both soften the dates and to allow the liquid to cool before adding to the batter..
• Combine the dry ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk together, the flour, baking powder, salt and chopped walnuts or pecans. Set aside.
• Make the batter: In a large bowl with an electric mixer or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and brown sugar, until light, about 2 minutes. Add the beaten eggs, vanilla and molasses. Beat until well combined, scraping down the bowl a couple of times, as needed. *Do a quick check of the date mixture and make sure it isn't hot. A little warm is fine, but not hot, as you don't want to cook the egg in the batter. Add the date mixture (with any liquid in the bowl) and mix in on low speed (so it doesn't splash), until combined.
• Add the flour mixture to the batter and mix in on low speed, mixing just until combined. Divide batter between prepared loaf pans.
• Bake the loaves in 350F oven for 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hours or until tester inserted in the centre of the loaf comes out clean. Note that baking times will vary, depending on oven and baking pans used. Check regularly after 1 hour of baking and start testing when it looks like it is nearing done.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, then lift out of the pan and remove to a wire rack, carefully removing the parchment paper. Allow to cool almost completely before slicing.