Fruit and date-nut bread

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 cups All-purpose flour
1 cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
¾ cup Cold butter or margarine; cut into 12 pieces
1 cup Pecans; chopped
1 cup Dates; chopped
½ cup Raisins
2 Eggs
1¼ cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350-F. Grease two 8½ x 41/2 x 2 ⅝-inch loaf pans.* 2. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in large bowl. With pastry blender or 2 knives used scissor fashion, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in pecans, dates and raisins.

3. Combine eggs, milk and vanilla in small bowl. Stir into flour mixture until just moistened. Spoon batter into pans, dividing equally.

4. Bake loaves in 350-F oven for 1 hour or until wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove to racks; cool completely. *For muffins: Grease twelve 4 ½ x 2 ½-inch muffin-pan cups. Bake at 350-F for 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean.

MC Busted by Martha Hicks

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #922 by "Nitro_II " <Nitro_II@...> on Nov 25, 97

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