1. Pour 1 cup boiling water over 2 cups date and 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts.
2. Cool to lukewarm.
3. Cream together 1/4 cup butter and 3/4 cup brown sugar until the mixture is light and smooth.
4. Add 1 egg, beaten and beat thoroughly.
5. Sift together 2 cups sifted cake flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon baking soda.
6. Add the dry ingredients, and the fruit-nut mixture alternately to the butter-sugar mixture.
7. Beat after each addition until the ingredients are blended.
8. Stir in 5 tablespoon cold water and turn the batter into a buttered bread loaf pan.
9. Bake in a moderate oven (350ºF) for 45 minutes or until he cake tested inserted into the center, comes out clean.
10. Remove the bread from the pans to a rack to cool.

List of ingredients required:

• 2 cups dates.
• 1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped.
• Butter.
• 3/4 cup brown sugar.
• 1 egg, beaten.
• 2 cups cake flour, sifted.
• 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• 1 teaspoon baking soda.
• Water.