{"id":59811,"date":"2026-02-22T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/all-american-date-bread"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:18:09","slug":"all-american-date-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/all-american-date-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"All-American Date Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1\/2           cup  warm water (105\u00ba to 115\u00baF)<br \/>\n2           packages  Fleischmann&#8217;s Active Dry Yeast<br \/>\n1 3\/4           cups  warm milk (105\u00ba to 115\u00baF)<br \/>\n2        tablespoons  sugar<br \/>\n2          teaspoons  salt<br \/>\n3        tablespoons  butter or margarine &#8212; softened<br \/>\n5 1\/2           cups  all-purpose flour (5 1\/2 to 6 cups)<br \/>\n1                cup  whole wheat flour<br \/>\n1           teaspoon  ground cinnamon<br \/>\n1       8-ounce package  chopped dates or pitted dates &#8212; snipped<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Place warm water in large warm bowl. Sprinkle in yeast; stir until dissolved. Add warm milk, sugar, salt and butter. Stir in 2 cups all-purpose flour; mix well. Add 1 1\/2 cups more all-purpose flour; beat until smooth. Stir in whole wheat flour, cinnamon and enough additional all-purpose flour to make a soft dough. Knead on lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning to grease top. Cover; let rise in warm, draft-free place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.<br \/>\nPunch dough down. On lightly floured surface, knead in dates. Divide dough into 2 equal portions. Roll each to 12 by 8-inch rectangle. Shape into loaves. Place in 2 greased 9 by 5 by 3-inch loaf pans. Cover; let rise in warm, draft-free place until doubled, about 1 hour.<br \/>\nBake at 400\u00baF for 30 minutes, or until done. Remove from pans; cool on wire racks.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&quot;Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks, He distributed to those who were seated; likewise also of the fish as much as they wanted.&quot; (John 6:11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/all-american-date-bread\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}