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      Title: Coca-Cola's Fruit and Date Loaf
 Categories: Quickbreads
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1    8-oz package of dates
      1    1/4 Cup Coke or other
           Cola drink
      1 c  Brown sugar - packed firmly
      2 tb Oil
      2 c  Flour
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Cinnamon
      1 ts Finely minced lemon rind or
           Zest
      1    Egg
      1 ts Vanilla or coffee extract
    1/2 c  Chopped pecans
 
  Preheat oven to 350 F. Generously grease a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan. Chop
  dates. Heat cola to boiling. Remove from heat and stir in dates,
  mixing very well. Stir in sugar and oil. Cool while preparing other
  ingredients. Stir dry ingredients together and add to cola mixture.
  Stir in egg, extract and nuts.
  
  Spoon batter into pan. Bake about 1 hour until cake tests done. Cool
  on a rack for 20 minutes then remove from pan and wrap. Store
  overnight before slicing.
  
  This fruity loaf showed up in Coke and Seven-Up cookbooks. Let cool
  and slice the day after baking. This recipe has been adapted from
  "Cooking With Coke" - a publication of the Coca Cola Company. From:
  Kas <kas@eisa.Net.Au> Date: Friday, August 20, 1999 4:37 Pm MM by H
  Peagram
 
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