Date Nut Bread

Name: Date Nut Bread
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 1 cup/250 ml milk; ½ cup/100 g sugar; ¼ cup/60 g butter; 1 cup/170 g chopped, pitted dates; 1 cup/125 g all-purpose flour; 1 cup/125 g whole wheat flour; 1 ½ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp salt; 1 egg, beaten to mix; ½ cup/60 g walnuts, chopped; 8 ½ x 4 ½ x 2 ½ in/22 x 11 x 7 cm loaf pan

Preparation info

Makes
1
medium loaf

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

La Varenne Pratique

By Anne Willan

Published 1989

About

Date bread is delicious with butter for breakfast, or served with cheese.

Ingredients

1 cup/250 ml milk
½ cup/100 g<

Europe
France
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the oven to 350°F/175°C; grease the loaf pan and line it with wax paper. Heat the milk, sugar and butter until melted, stir in the dates and leave until cooled to lukewarm
In a bowl, mix both types of flour, baking powder and salt. Make a well in the center and add the milk mixture, egg and walnuts. Stir until just mixed.
Pour the batter into the