Dates Cake

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup butter or margarine
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
  
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup dates, pitted
  
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1/2 cup walnut

Pour boiling water over dates, mash dates with a fork and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease an 8-inch round cake pan.
Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Add egg and vanilla and stir well.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together.
Add dry ingredients to egg mixture alternately with mashed dates mix. Stir in walnuts.
Scrape batter into pan and bake for 50-55 minutes or until tester inserted to cake's center comes out clean.