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Bread Pudding

Old stale bread and breadcrumbs can be baked into something heavenly with ingredients that almost anyone has in the kitchen.  This simple dessert is popular all over the world and has hundreds of variations

Ingredients for Bread Pudding

  • 2 cups coarse dry bread crumbs
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 quart hot milk
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 1 t vanilla

Options: 1/2 cup coconut, nuts, raisins, dates

Preparation

Butter a baking dish. In it put the bread crumbs, butter, and hot milk. Mix and cool.

Add sugar, beaten eggs, salt, and vanilla. Stir well.

Add 1/2 cup of any of the suggested options, or devise some of your own.

Bake for 1 hour at 325 F. Serve with milk or sweet cream.


Date Squares

Also known as Matrimonial Cake, these date squares were one of Mom’s standby desserts that we all loved.

  • 1-3/4 cups rolled oats
  • 1-1/2 cups flour
  • 1 t baking powder
  • 3/4 cups brown sugar
  • 3/4 cups margarine (use 2/3 cups coconut oil instead for an easy vegan version)
  • 3/4 lb. chopped dates, pitted
  • water
  • 2 T brown sugar
  • 1 t vanilla

Mix oats, flour, baking powder, 3/4 cup brown sugar, and salt. Rub in the margarine. Press 2/3 of mix firmly into bottom of greased 8″ pan.

Boil the dates with a little water and 2 T brown sugar until soft. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.

Spread carefully on top of the oat and flour base in pan. Cover with rest of the oat and flour mix, this time pressing it only very slightly into dates.

Bake at 300 F for about 40 minutes.

Cat, by Talon
Cat, by Talon,Dec 2008 after seeing one of Kati’s drawings

Date and Nut Bread

A quick and easy sweet bread with moist dates and crunchy nuts that’s great for breakfast, as a dessert, or as a snack.

Ingredients for Date and Nut Bread

  • 1 cup chopped dates
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 3/4 cup boiling water
  • 1 egg
  • 1 t baking powder
  • 1 cup white flour
  • 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 1/2 to 3/4 cup chopped nuts

Preparing Date and Nut Bread

Mix together the chopped, pitted dates, brown sugar, oil and boiling water. Allow dates to soften and mixture to cool. Stir in the egg, beaten, baking powder, flours, salt and nuts.

Put into a greased loaf pan (9 x 5″). Bake at 350F for approximately 50 minutes.