DATE AND NUT SLICE

Ingredients:
1½ cups S.R.flour
1 cup sugar
185 g dates, chopped
125 g walnuts, chopped
90 g butter, melted
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1½ Tbl sweet sherry
½ tsp vanilla

Method:
Sift flour and salt into bowl, stir in sugar, dates and walnuts.

Add butter, eggs, sherry and vanilla and mix well.

Press mixture into a greased, paper-lined 28cm x 18cm lamington tin.

Bake in a moderate over for 20 - 25 minutes or until cooked. Allow to cool in tin.

Ice when cool.

Angelina Barracano

DATE: August 1999

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