Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  1                     & 3/4   cups all-purpose
                        flour
     3/4           cup  sugar
  1           teaspoon  baking powder
     1/2      teaspoon  baking soda
     1/2      teaspoon  salt
     3/4           cup  orange juice
  1                     egg-lightly beaten
  2         tablespoon  butter or margarine-melted and cooled
  1         tablespoon  grated fresh orange peel
     1/2      teaspoon  almond extract
     1/2           cup  chopped pitted dates
     1/2           cup  chopped pecans

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In seperate bowl, combine orange juice, egg, butter, orange peeo and almond extract. Make well in center of flour mixture and pour in orange juice mixture; stir until just combined. Stir in dates and pecaans. Pour batter into greased 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Bake at 350 degree for 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack. Makes 1 loaf.

Nutritional Information:

1311 Calories (kcal); 41g Total Fat; (26% calories from fat); 8g Protein; 247g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 2189mg Sodium