Date Loaf

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10-05-2016, 06:28 PM
EeeBees

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Date Loaf

Wanted to do a bit more baking for the trip away...so I decided on Date Loaf and Quartre Quarts (Pound Cake)...

Date Loaf...

Grease a loaf tin with butter...cover the base with baking paper and grease the paper...then dust with flour...

You will need...

200g dates
250mls boiling water
1 tsp baking soda

Cut the dates in half into a bowl and add the water and baking soda...leave to soak while you prepare the dough...if you should get a little distracted at this time do not worry about the soaking dates...there is no damage if they soak a little longer...

50g butter
200g sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder

Beat the sugar into the butter, adding the essence. Beat in the egg, and add the sifted flour and baking powder...add the dates and water...it is a very liquid combination at this point...pour into the loaf tin

Bake at 180c until a skewer comes out clean...I have added mixed spice to the mix on some occasions but it really does not need it...

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Slice and serve with lashings of butter...:)
10-05-2016, 06:31 PM
Maca49

God it's dinner time, I'm eating chippies! That looks yum!:thumbsup:
10-05-2016, 07:23 PM
Rushy

Eeebees posting pictures like that is cruel.
10-05-2016, 07:27 PM
223nut

He made three.... Feel like sharing
10-05-2016, 07:36 PM
Maca49

You can have the "he" ones I'll have the " she" ones!!!!:D
10-05-2016, 07:58 PM
mrs dundee

Very yum EeeBees good old home cooking i pull out a banana bread out of the freezernthats yum too. Where are you going.
10-05-2016, 08:21 PM
Rushy

I am quite surprised that @veitnamcam hasn't stumped up with an order for twenty.
10-05-2016, 08:25 PM
Maca49

He's probably driving north right now!:thumbsup:
10-05-2016, 08:27 PM
Rushy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maca49

He's probably driving north right now!:thumbsup:

If you have any influence at all with Eeebees Maca then you will have her cater desserts for this years Sika Show gathering.
10-05-2016, 08:28 PM
EeeBees

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrs dundee

Very yum EeeBees good old home cooking i pull out a banana bread out of the freezernthats yum too. Where are you going.

Getting away from the Bay, @mrs dundee...and going to Taupo...just hope the mountain doesn't have a hiccup...!!! Banana bread...yum...
10-05-2016, 08:34 PM
EeeBees

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rushy

If you have any influence at all with Eeebees Maca then you will have her cater desserts for this years Sika Show gathering.

Crickey...mmmmm!!!! I am actually wanting to make a decoy for the decoy competition but the rate I am going I do not think it will happen...thankfully it is in September, (I think that is right!)
10-05-2016, 08:44 PM
mrs dundee

My favourite place Taupo ,enjoy.
10-05-2016, 08:45 PM
Rushy

Quote:

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Crickey...mmmmm!!!! I am actually wanting to make a decoy for the decoy competition but the rate I am going I do not think it will happen...thankfully it is in September, (I think that is right!)

Eeebees there were a bunch of us waiting with eager anticipation last year and we all felt jilted when you were unable to come down. There is plenty of time to bake up a storm. There is even time to send a few samples around the North and South Island. If you need more time (and yes it is September) then there is always Toby's Memorial to cater but that is likely to be far more hungry mouths than Maca's. By the way is the old coot giving you free use of his bach at Kinlock for the week?
10-05-2016, 09:06 PM
Maca49

Geeze Rushy you would survive a Sika show if EeeBees and teFerrarri came, they'd sort ya out! Good idea me thinks!:cool:
10-05-2016, 09:27 PM
EeeBees

No need, @Rushy...there is a rock or two where I am going that will shelter the dogs and I...!!!! no, accommodation all sorted, thank you...:)
10-05-2016, 09:39 PM
Maca49

Shooting ducks on Taupo legal?;)
10-05-2016, 09:49 PM
P38

Num num num :P

Cheers
Pete
10-05-2016, 11:24 PM
EeeBees

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maca49

Shooting ducks on Taupo legal?;)

:D:D I like hunting the dogs on the gaudy ones...not the watery ones...
11-05-2016, 11:49 AM
veitnamcam

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Originally Posted by Rushy

I am quite surprised that @veitnamcam hasn't stumped up with an order for twenty.

I have been having login issues.
11-05-2016, 07:21 PM
Rushy

Quote:

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I have been having login issues.

So order placed now huh?
11-05-2016, 08:49 PM
Maca49

It's a loaf! Not a login!
11-05-2016, 08:50 PM
Maca49

Quote:

Originally Posted by EeeBees

:D:D I like hunting the dogs on the gaudy ones...not the watery ones...

I know where there's one or two down there!
11-05-2016, 09:03 PM
Rushy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maca49

I know where there's one or two down there!

Sounds like a guiding opportunity Maca
11-05-2016, 09:06 PM
Maca49

No poacher Rushy unless it's ME!
11-05-2016, 09:09 PM
Rushy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maca49

No poacher Rushy unless it's ME!

That is what I meant Maca. You know where they are so guide Eeebees on to the birds.
11-05-2016, 09:13 PM
Maca49

I breeding them up to a decent flock! One cat to go, got some quail as well.
12-05-2016, 05:36 AM
Rushy

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Originally Posted by Maca49

I breeding them up to a decent flock! One cat to go, got some quail as well.

Give the pussy a pill Maca.