Recipe for cooking beer can date bread

Quick Meals- Soups and Bread :: Sweet Quick Breads

Beer Can Date Bread

8 empty beer cans
2 Tbsp. baking soda
1 C. dates
2 C. beer
3 Tbsp. butter
1 C. maple syrup
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
2 eggs
4 C. whole wheat pastry flour
1 C. pecans

Remove tops from beer cans with can opener; lightly oil insides.

Sprinkle baking soda on dates. Heat beer to boiling and pour over date mixture; set aside to cool.

Cream butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract or flavoring and eggs. Stir in flour. Add nuts and cooled date mixture. Spoon batter into cans, filling only 1/2 full. Bake with cans standing up on baking sheet, at 350 degrees F for 15 to 30 min.; look for tops to split and test for doneness.

Do not cut bread for 1 day as the bread may crumble if it is sliced while still warm.