Date Nut Bread

1¼ cup sugar
1½ cup boiling water
2 cups dates (chopped)
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tsp. soda
1 large egg
1 Tbsp. melted butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup walnuts
2¾ cups flour

Pour water over dates. Allow to stand 20 minutes. Beat egg, add sugar, melted butter and mix. Strain water from dates into egg mixture. Sift flour, salt and soda into egg mixture. Add dates, nuts, vanilla. Bake in two loaf pans 1 hour in 325°F oven.

Submitted by: Mrs. Dorothy Enright