Date dainties

Name: Date dainties
Yield: 0 serving
Cuisine: Boil
Ingredients: 250.00 g margarine hard; 180.00 g brown sugar; 250.00 g dates chopped; 2.00 eggs beaten; 5.00 ml mixed spice ground; 250.00 ml pecan nuts or walnuts, chopped; 2.00 Marie biscuits crushed; coconut

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By Food24 November 03 2009

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Ingredients (8)

250.00 g	margarine — hard
180.00 g	brown sugar
250.00 g	dates — chopped
2.00	eggs — beaten
5.00 ml	mixed spice — ground
250.00 ml	pecan nuts — or walnuts, chopped
2.00	Marie biscuits — crushed
	coconut

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Method:

1. Melt the margarine, add sugar and chopped dates, and cook until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and cool.
2. Add beaten eggs, return to low heat and cook for about 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
3. Add mixed spice, chopped nuts and crushed biscuits. If mixture is very sticky/wet, add extra biscuits.
4. Press into a greased tray and leave to set overnight in the fridge. Cut into squares. Cut each square diagonally into 2 triangles and roll in coconut. Store in the fridge.