Ingredients

• 3 well beaten eggs
• 1 cup - each of castor sugar and refined flour or maida
• 1/4 tsp - salt
• 1 tsp - baking powder
• 1.5 cups - pitted and sliced dates
• 1 tsp - essence of vanilla
• 1 cup - broken walnut

How to Make Date bars

• Beat eggs with sugar until very thick. Mix in the flour, salt and baking powder.
• Add dates, essence and walnuts.
• Bake in a waxed paper-lined pan in a moderate oven for half an hour or till a knife inserted comes out clean.
• While still warm cut into bars and roll in icing sugar.