0: Place the dates in a mixing bowl and add boiling water
1: Let stand until fairly cool
2: Then add the brown sugar, egg, shortening and vanilla
3: Stir the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder into the mixture
4: Add nuts
5: Stir until mixed
6: Bake in a greased and floured loaf pan in a preheated 350 degrees oven for 1 hour
7: Remove to a cooling rack
8: From
9: "Whole Family Cookbook" by Jeff Smith (wrv)
10: Waldine, Slidell, La
11: Submitted by: Rose Ray dsjn00a
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