This recipe takes me back. I first tasted it when Jack brought me to meet his extended family in Co Durham, England. I have made it regularly over the years and it proved very popular.
Date & Walnut Cake
Preheat oven to 160°C
8ozs Dates chopped
4ozs Caster Sugar
1level tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
2ozs Butter or Margarine
Pinch Salt
1 Egg, beaten
6 fluid ozs Water
2ozs Walnuts
8ozs Self Raising Flour
1 tsp Vanilla essence
Place dates, sugar, salt, soda and margarine in a mixing bowl. Boil water, pour over dates etc. and mix well to melt the margarine. Cool a little. Add beaten egg, walnuts, flour & vanilla essence. Mix to a smooth batter type consistency. Pour into a greased & lined 2lb loaf tin. Bake for 1½ hours. Cool in tin.
Variation: Try apricots and almonds instead of the dates and walnuts.
Sounds yummy. You don’t have a nice recipe for Banana bread do you?
Lottie
I do have a Banana bread recipe and will post it next week.
Yay thanks GM. I LOVE banana bread. If you need to test the recipe I am happy to volunteer as a taster! 🙂
Sounds yummy Grannymar. Am trying to envision it… is it a dark cake? Or more pound cake like?
@Lottie – Next week you can make it and come back with a review 😉
@Deborah – The Date & Walnut cake would come between a Banana Cake and a fruit brack in colour.
Oh Boy ! Childhood memories…..
Throw in some of those dark Glacé Cherries you can some times find…just for over indulgence’s sake!
Talking of Childhood memories: My mother made sultana buns every week, she willingly gave away the recipe but no one could make them like she did. Even my sisters cannot to this day and she taught them. Didn’t like them myself, I had to eat one evry tea time, but everyone else raved about them. Especially her male friends.
I womder what she did that made the difference?
Magpie
It was a special stir of the ingredients with ‘mothers love’ that did it!
Aww goodie. The only cakes I really do like are these heavy types, Date and Walnut, Banana, Carrot . . . Used to make date and walnut in a cylindrical tin for little circles of yumminess, daubed with butter whilst fresh out of the oven! I can smell it now.
Who says the postman never delivers on a Monday
Anyone care to guess what arrived!
@Baino – You will be happy for a couple of weeks so! 😉
@Mike – A date and walnut cake ❓ 🙄
Something more shiny than that
Mike
Is it something to blog about?
Its something to be proud of
Mike
A Swimming trophy!