Dates, Should I Toss Them or Keep Them?
Pup K9
baking recipes but, never got around to it. The bag is unopened, do you think
they might still be good? Should I toss them out or keep them?
Thanks in advance,
JoanL
Miche
(Pup K9) wrote:
They're probably still good. Open the bag, smell and taste. If they
smell or taste "wrong", toss 'em.
Miche
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decobabe
inner reason you never used them?
LOL
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Ginny Sher
wrote:
>They are probably safe, but dates are so NASTY. Think, wasn't there an
>inner reason you never used them?
>
Nooooooooooo, dates are NOT nasty. Curses on you for saying this ;-)
Ginny S.
Damsel in dis Dress
>Last December I had bought some dates that I was planning on using in some
>baking recipes but, never got around to it. The bag is unopened, do you
>think they might still be good? Should I toss them out or keep them?
I'd use them. They last for a long time when sealed.
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PENMART01
>Last December I had bought some dates that I was planning on using in some
>baking recipes but, never got around to it. The bag is unopened, do you think
>they might still be good? Should I toss them out or keep them?
I eat my dates no matter their age... just so's you don't see any crawlies it's
all good.
Sheldon
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Barry Grau
> They are probably safe, but dates are so NASTY. Think, wasn't there an
> inner reason you never used them?
I used to think the same thing. A few weeks ago I came across a
package of dreid Tunisian dates still on the stem. They looked
beautiful and I bought a package. It was a revelation to me.
-bwg
Ginny Sher
this date <g>, it is one of my favorite treats. No more complaining
about dates, ok?
Ginny
Date Squares
Filling
2 cups boiling water
1 cup brown sugar, packed
4 cups dates, chopped
2 tablespoons cornstarch, diluted in water
1/2 to 1 teaspoon vanilla
Crust
3 1/2 cups oatmeal
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt, optional
2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups butter, melted
Filling:
Boil water. Add brown sugar and disolve. Add diluted cornstarch
(remove pan from burner temporarily when adding cornstarch). Add
dates and stir on medium heat until thickened somewhat. Remove from
heat and let cool.
Crust:
Mix oatmeal, flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt. (Break up
clumps of brown sugar). Add melted butter and mix thoroughly. Spread
half of mixture onto greased (lasagne size) pan. Pat down. Spread
date mixture on top of crust and spread. Place remaining crust
mixture over dates and gently press down. Bake at 325° for 20-30
minutes or until golden in color. Cut and enjoy when cool.
Glenn DuHart
mine, have been making these squares for years.
Glenn
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Ginny Sher
<gdu...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Your family isn't from Newfoundland by any chance. Families there, like
>mine, have been making these squares for years.
>
>Glenn
>
From Quebec...not so far away eh?
Ginny Sher
Koko
JoanL
Stuff them with chorizo, wrap them in bacon and fry.
No one will know the difference <evil grin>
Just kidding to all my cookin' pals
Koko
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A Yuman being on the net
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Miche
ginn...@mediaone.net (Ginny Sher) wrote:
Dates are yum, sooo sweet. Mmmm.
Miche
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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
>> >They are probably safe, but dates are so NASTY. Think, wasn't there an
>> >inner reason you never used them?
>> >
>>
>> Nooooooooooo, dates are NOT nasty. Curses on you for saying this ;-)
>
>Dates are yum, sooo sweet. Mmmm.
In fact, they are even yum yum.
Use them up in Yum Yum Cake. From http://www.annemitchell.com:
YUM YUM CAKE
As unlikely as this cake may seem at first blush, it is very good!
INGREDIENTS
1 cup dates (chopped)
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cup boiling water
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup shortening
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup chocolate, semi sweet chips
1/2 cup nuts
1/2 cup brown sugar
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350.
Mix first 3 ingredients and let cool. Cream next 6 ingredients together.
Add date mixture.
Pour into greased 9x13 cake pan.
Mix chocolate chips, nuts, and brown sugar together, and sprinkle on top of
batter.
Bake until done (approximately 35 minutes).
Anne
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Ok, now you've got me drooling again! Date Thingies!!! Oh!
Next cook-in OK?
Charlie
Damsel in dis Dress
>Stuff them with chorizo, wrap them in bacon and fry.
>No one will know the difference <evil grin>
>Just kidding to all my cookin' pals
Cut a slit in one side, stuff an almond into the date (or a walnut or pecan
piece), then roll the date in granulated sugar. Easy, pretty, and
delicious!
decobabe
then when you bite them they are icky dates!
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PENMART01
>"Damsel in dis Dress" wrote:
>
>>Cut a slit in one side, stuff an almond into the date
>>(or a walnut or pecan piece), then roll the date in
>>granulated sugar. Easy, pretty, and delicious!
Dab a goodly dollop of cream cheese into those slits... hang a couple
nuts on them... roll them in sugar... and your dates become "Trollops"!
"Merriam Webster"
trollop:
Easy, Pretty and Delicious! <G>
>This is not true! They look like some kind of yummy homemade truffle and
>then when you bite them they are icky dates!
Whadda you know...
Dates are one of the seven wonders of the culinary world, right up there with
chocolate, honey, vanilla ice cream, tree ripened sun-warmed just picked
elberta peaches, blue cheese, matjes herring, NY bagels, and Joyva Halvah ...
you just don't know what good is, prolly think McDs is nectar of the gods..
DATE WALNUT RUGELACH
For dough
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour (sift before measuring)
1/2 teaspoon salt
For filling
8 ounces pitted dates (about 1 1/3 cups)
1/2 cup walnuts
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Confectioners' sugar for rolling out dough
Make dough:
In a food processor blend butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add flour and
salt and pulse just until mixture forms a ball. Form dough into a log. Chill
dough, wrapped well in plastic wrap, at least 4 hours and up to 1 day.
Make filling:
Finely chop dates and walnuts and in a bowl with your hands toss together
dates, walnuts, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla until combined well.
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cut dough crosswise into 8 equal pieces and work with 1 piece at a time,
keeping remaining pieces covered and chilled. On a work surface sprinkled with
confectioners' sugar using a rolling pin dusted with confectioners' sugar, roll
out piece of dough into an 8-inch round. Cut round into 8 wedges, keeping round
intact.
Sprinkle 1/3 cup filling in a ring around outer portion of round, leaving a
1-inch border around edge, and press filling gently into dough. Working with 1
wedge at a time, fold outer edge of pastry over filling and roll up filling in
pastry, jelly-roll fashion, folding sides under pastry to enclose filling.
Transfer rugelach, as formed, pointed ends down, to ungreased baking sheets.
Make more rugelach in same manner.
Bake rugelach in batches in upper and lower thirds of oven, switching position
of sheets halfway through baking, until golden, 15 to 20 minutes total.
Transfer rugelach to racks to cool completely. Rugelach keep in an airtight
container at room temperature 3 days.
Makes 64 rugelach.
Gourmet
December 1997
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DATE-PECAN BOURBON TRUFFLES
1 cup packed very coarsely chopped pitted dates
2 tablespoons bourbon
1/4 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoons maple syrup
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
6 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 1/2 cups finely chopped toasted pecans
Line cookie sheet with foil. Mix dates and 1 tablespoon bourbon in bowl; set
aside. Bring cream, syrup, butter and nutmeg to simmer in heavy medium
saucepan, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Add chocolate and whisk until
smooth and melted. Stir in date mixture and remaining 1 tablespoon bourbon.
Freeze mixture until firm enough to mound on spoon, stirring occasionally,
about 20 minutes.
Drop chocolate mixture by rounded tablespoons onto foil-lined sheet. Freeze
until almost firm, about 10 minutes. Roll each mound in pecans. Chill until
firm. (Can be prepared 2 weeks ahead. Cover and keep refrigerated.) Serve cold.
Makes about 18.
Bon Appétit
October 1992
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Lenona321
"sugarplums")
Chopped dates
Finely chopped walnuts
Finely chopped orange rind
Orange juice
Mix in any proportion you wish, then roll in granulated sugar. Stick an almond
or a piece of candied fruit in the middle. These keep well.
Lenona.
black coffee
yum!
weedfam
black coffee wrote:
>
> make sticky date pudding with lots of caramel sauce passed over on the top.
> yum!
(from the better-late-than-never department)
Just before I left on vaction, I made something called Chinese Chews
that
called for a quarter cup of chopped dates. I had some that were dusted
with
oat flour, and looked like they'd been extruded after being depitted.
Been
in the cabinet for at least a couple of years. Tasted some, didn't die,
threw them into the recipe, and the 36 bars were gone before the
brownies.
I may have to break down and get some more dates....
maxine in ri