Directions
- Sprinkle dates with soda, pour the boiling water over the mixture and let stand until cool.
- Break egg yolk into a bowl, beat, add sugar gradually, and vanilla. Combine with date mixture.
- Sift into mixture the flour, baking powder and salt, and mix in.Do not beat.
- Pour into greased 8 x 4 x 3 loaf tin. Bake about 45 minutes in moderate oven (350 degrees).
- Better when one day old.
- Keep covered.