Date And Nut Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 8 ounces flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 2 ounces soft brown sugar
• 3 ounces chopped dates
• 2 ounces black treacle
• 1 1/2 ounces chopped walnuts
• 1 ounce butter
• 1/4 pint milk

Recipe

• 1 grease and line a 2lb loaf tin. preheat the oven to 350f/ gas 4.
• 2 sieve the flour, salt, baking powder and soda into a bowel. add the dates and nuts.
• 3 heat the sugar, treacle, butter and milk gently until the sugar dissolves, stirring carefully.
• 4 stir with a metal spoon into the dry ingredients, mixing well. do not beat.
• 5 pour the batter into the prepared tin.
• 6 bake for 1 hour.