Brown Bread
Source of Recipe
Mom
Recipe Introduction
Mom always made this at holiday time. It's really good. When she was cleaning out vegetable can and such we could never figure out why but when she made this bread we knew!
List of Ingredients
2 cups raisins or 1 cup raisins and 1 cup dates
2 cups boiling water
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
3 heaping tablespoons shortening
1 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoobn saltRecipe
Pour boiling water over raisin and dates and add baking soda and cool.
Mix rest of ingredients and add raisin mixture.
Fill greased and floured cans half full or 2 loaf pans.
Bake at 350 for 1 hour.