Ask a Chef reveals the secrets of those superb dishes you ate in cafes and restaurants and wanted to try yourself.
Photo: Richard Davison
Wild Walnut's date loaf
Makes 2 loaves
Ingredients
3½ cups dates
3 cups boiling water
1 Tbsp baking soda
120g butter
2 cups brown sugar
1½ cups white flour
1½ cups wholemeal flour
1 cup walnuts, chopped
Method
In a saucepan add chopped dates, boiling water, butter and sugar and simmer for 10 minutes until mushy.
Remove from heat, stir and add in baking soda.
Cool.
Mix in dry ingredients.
Line two loaf tins and divide the mixture between the two.
Bake at 160degC for 45-60 minutes.
Recipe provided by Wild Walnut in Lawrence. Recipe requested by Jenny Fieldwick, Dunedin.
If you have enjoyed a dish at an Otago cafe or restaurant and would like the recipe, write to Ask a Chef, Features, Otago Daily Times, PO Box 517, Dunedin, fax 474-7422, or email odt.features@odt.co.nz, including your name, address and a daytime telephone number, and we will request it.
