Date And Walnut Rolls

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 cup dates, chopped (dried pitted dates)
• 1 cup brown sugar, measure firmly packed
• 1 1/4 cups water
• 60 g butter
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
• 2 cups self-raising flour (alternately use 2 cups plain flour and 4 teaspoons baking powder)

Recipe

• 1 grease 2 - 8cm round x 17cm long nut roll tins. if you do not have nut roll tins you can use a bar loaf tin and cover it tightly in foil- the result is not as quite as good.
• 2 preheat oven to 180°c (350°f ).
• 3 combine the date, butter, sugar and water in a saucepan. stir over low heat until the sugar and butter have melted. bring to boiling point and then remove from the heat.
• 4 allow the mixture to cool.
• 5 stir the sifted bicarbonate soda, sifted flour, egg and nuts into the cooled date mixture.
• 6 spoon the mixture into the greased tins. replace the lids tightly and bake upright in a moderate oven for 40 minutes.
• 7 stand rolls ten minutes before turning out onto wire racks to cool.
• 8 serve sliced with butter.
• 9 suitable to slice and freeze.
• 10 as a variation you can use pecan nuts or macadamias in place of the walnuts.