Date & Walnut Bread

Serves 4

High fibre

Dates and Walnuts and Cottage cheese make a light moist semi-sweet bread cake. This can be eaten plain or lightly spread with honey or even a very low fat cheese spread.

Ingredients: -

225g/½lb - semi-dried dates

225g/½lb - wholemeal flour

150ml/¼oz - skimmed milk

75g/3oz - low fat cottage cheese

45ml/3oz - chopped walnuts

1 egg - beaten ½ tsp - bicarbonate of soda

freshly grated nutmeg

pinch of salt

Method: -

Heat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas mark 4.

Stone and chop the dates.

Put the dates and walnuts into a bowl with the flour and add the nutmeg, salt and bicarbonate of soda.

Make a well in the centre.

Rub the cheese through a sieve or strainer, and gradually beat in the egg.

Pour this mixture and the skimmed milk into the flour and mix ingredients together.

Put into a greased 450g/1lb loaf tin and smooth on top.

Bake the loaf for 1 hour and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

Cooking time approximately 1 hour.

Although this recipe contains one egg, the amount in each slice is very small

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