0: Preheat oven to 350
1: Grease 8 x 4" loaf pan-line bottom with wax paper
2: Pour boiling water over dates--let soften
3: With elec
4: mixer, or by hand, beat butter untill creamy in lge
5: bowl
6: Gradually beat in the sugars and cream well; beat in the egg
7: Beat in the dates and their liquid (at lowest speed)
8: Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and soda and add gradually, on lowest speed to the creamed mixture; stir in the nuts
9: Turn into greased loaf pan
10: Bake in center of oven 45 min
11: , or until cake tester inserted in middle of loaf comes out clean
12: Cool loaf in pan on rack for 10 min
13: and turn out on rack to cool
14: Wrap airtight--will keep for at least a week, referigerated
15: Longer storage, freeze
16: From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www
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