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Tea Dance Date-Nut Bread

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Victorians found tea refreshments to be useful for various entertainments – high tea (more a light supper), family tea, nursery tea, bridge teas, tennis teas, wedding teas, and tea dances.

1 ½ cups white flour  1 cup nuts, chopped
5 teaspoons baking powder  1 cup dates, chopped
1 ½ teaspoons salt  ½ cup brown sugar
¼ teaspoon soda  1 ½ cups milk

1 ½ cups whole-wheat flour 

¼ cup molasses

Combine the dry ingredients. Stir in milk and molasses, and spoon into a greased loaf pan. Bake at 375 degrees for about an hour. To serve at teatime, slice and then cut each slice in half (or bake two mini-loaves, reducing oven time). Delicious spread with cream cheese.

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