SPICY TEA BREAD

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This was my mother's recipe which has been modified from her great grandmother's. My mother's family is from Great Britain and Germany so they brought tea time and a love of spicy sweets with them and this is the result.

Provided by shep1144

Time 2h5m

Yield 10

Number Of Ingredients 18

Ingredients

1 (8 ounce) package pitted dates
1 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons molasses
2 tablespoons butter, each cut into quarters
1 ¼ cups strong hot black tea
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
¼ teaspoon white pepper
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¾ cup walnuts

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and dust a 9x5-inch loaf pan with white sugar.
Combine dates, sugar, molasses, and butter in a large bowl. Pour tea over date mixture and mix well; set aside to cool, 15 to 20 minutes.
Whisk all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, salt, nutmeg, cardamom, and white pepper together in a bowl.
Stir egg and vanilla extract into cooled date mixture. Add 1/3 the flour mixture to the date mixture; mix well. Repeat 2 more times with remaining flour mixture until batter is just combined; fold in walnuts. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted in the middle of the bread comes out clean, about 1 1/4 hours. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 350.2 calories, Carbohydrate 64.9 g, Cholesterol 24.7 mg, Fat 9.1 g, Fiber 4.6 g, Protein 6.2 g, SaturatedFat 2.3 g, Sodium 217.1 mg, Sugar 36.9 g