Today is Date Nut Bread Day. Has this wonderful quick bread fallen out of favor? I think not. It's a great bread to smother with cream cheese.. or more upscale marscapone. Date Nut Bread makes fabulous sandwiches, and it's also great toasted and smeared with butter. Add some chocolate chunks to the recipe, and it belongs on this blog!
This wonderful advertisement from 1941 not only reflects the popularity of this quick bread in the U.S., but it's an historical testament to nylon hose and prepared foods at that time. Want to sell a product in the 1940s? Appeal to women. To win a pair of nylons, all you needed to do was finish the jingle. 1000 lucky women won nylons. In 1939 DuPont introduced nylon stockings at the New York World's Fair, whose theme was the World of Tomorrow. DuPont then went into full scale production, and by May 1940, nylon hose was a huge success and women lined up at stores across the county to obtain the precious goods. Just an FYI, nylon went to war in 1942 to be used as parachutes and tents (as silk had been before nylon) and became in short supply.
Dromedary Date Nut Bread in a Can is no longer in production, but isn't the concept and ad fabulous. I used to bake a lot of quick breads in a can, but they didn't come already baked in a can, right on the shelves. FYI: Dromedary Date-Nut Bread in a can did not contain chocolate.
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Dromedary Dates, which were also sold at the market, had a recipe on the back of the package for Date-Nut Bread. Here's a recipe that's pretty close to the original Dromedary Date-Nut Bread Recipe -- with the addition of Chocolate Chunks. If you want your finished Date-Nut Bread to look similar to the ad above, bake the date-nut breads in 4 soup cans!
With fork, mix walnuts, dates, soda + salt in a bowl. Add oil and boiling water. Let stand 20 minutes. With fork, beat eggs slightly, add vanilla. Stir in sugar and sifted flour. Mix in date mixture. Fold in chocolate chunks. Do Not Overmix. Place in greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pan (or a coffee can or soup cans). Bake at 350 for 1 hour until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Move to wire rack to finish cooling.This date nut bread recipe is easy to make, and packed with rich, sweet date flavor. In fact, this recipe for date nut bread my mom's family's recipe, and my weathered recipe card notes that the date nut bread recipe has been a family favorite since the late 1800s.
Have you ever tasted the deliciousness that is date nut bread? It's old fashioned and not terribly common these days, but I absolutely love it. It's a quick bread--a bread made without yeast; instead, it depends on chemical leaveners like baking soda and baking powder. This date nut bread recipe could also be called a tea bread, or a date nut loaf cake, since it's a sweet quick bread.
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Our old family recipe even says things like Bake in a moderate oven, a phrase not used since the days of wood-fired ovens without temperature gauges. But I've figured out what that means for today's modern oven, and I'm sharing this family favorite recipe with you today.
Pit and chop your dates into small pieces (or buy them already pitted and chopped up). Sprinkle the baking soda over the dates, and pour the cup of boiling water over the dates and soda.
Pour the batter in a greased bread pan. Don't worry about the light color of the batter. You did it correctly; it will bake up into that beautiful mahogany color, I promise, no matter how blond it looks before it is cooked.
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The quick answer is yes, you can certainly bake this classic date nut bread recipe in a can. (Be sure to grease it really, REALLY well, because it's a lot harder to get it out of a can than a loaf pan!) But a more interesting question is why that became a tradition.
It's almost certainly because of the popularity of pre-made, canned date nut bread in the mid-20th century. Brands like Dromedary and Crosse and Blackwell made convenient, ready-made cans of this classic quick bread.
Canned date nut bread is no longer manufactured (at least as far as I've been able to find), but there's nostalgia for the shape of the round slices of this mid-century convenience food. There's no real reason to bake date nut bread in a can unless you want that vintage style.
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Date nut bread and cream cheese sandwiches were incredibly popular in the mid-20th century in New York City. Here's a great article from Politico about the history and tradition of this particular food. The tangy cream cheese pairs really well with sweet slices of date nut bread.
Of course, date nut bread is so delicious that it doesn't need anything, really. Just cut me a slice and I'm happy.
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