Karen's Pumpkin Date Bread

This is my favorite recipe around the holidays. The combinations I thought up work very well together. The recipe originally was my grandmother's. I added the dates and everyone was wild about it.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
• Calories: 352 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup pumpkin puree
• ⅓ cup buttermilk
• 1 ⅓ cups raw sugar
• ⅓ cup shortening, softened
• ⅓ cup chopped dates

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.

Step 2

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.

Step 3

Sift flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, and cloves together in a bowl.

Step 4

Mix buttermilk and vanilla extract together in a small bowl.

Step 5

Beat sugar and shortening in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Beat in pumpkin puree. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk mixture, beating batter briefly after each addition.

Step 6

Fold dates into the batter. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.