Hi UKMocha,
I used to be vegetarian (until I got meat cravings during pregnancy) and I found this recipe with US quantities. I had nut loaf for five Christmases straight, and most of the meat eaters agreed it was an excellent side dish! When it says cool thoroughly before slicing, you don't have to do that but it crumbles and won't slice properly unless you do.
Christmas Nut Loaf
1 1/2 c. flour
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 T. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 lbs. pitted dates
2 lbs. walnuts
1 lb. brazil nuts
1 8-oz. maraschino cherries
5 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
Sift together dry ingredients. Add nuts to flour mixture and stir to coat. Beat eggs and vanilla. Mix into flour mixture. Easiest to mix with your hands. Spoon into three 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" loaf pans. Bake at 325° for 1 hour. Cool throughly before slicing.
On 2001-11-05 00:37, dianey wrote:
Hi UKMocha,
I used to be vegetarian (until I got meat cravings during pregnancy) and I found this recipe with US quantities. I had nut loaf for five Christmases straight, and most of the meat eaters agreed it was an excellent side dish! When it says cool thoroughly before slicing, you don't have to do that but it crumbles and won't slice properly unless you do.
Christmas Nut Loaf
1 1/2 c. flour
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 T. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 lbs. pitted dates
2 lbs. walnuts
1 lb. brazil nuts
1 8-oz. maraschino cherries
5 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
Sift together dry ingredients. Add nuts to flour mixture and stir to coat. Beat eggs and vanilla. Mix into flour mixture. Easiest to mix with your hands. Spoon into three 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" loaf pans. Bake at 325° for 1 hour. Cool throughly before slicing.
Thanks a lot Dianey...Will try this one this year.
Cheers!
Ok..leave it to me to reply to a 8 month old post.. but.... Dianey, I'm just curious about your recipe.. do you serve it as a substitute for the meat dishes or as a side dish? Just reading through the recipe without having had a chance to try it, it looks similiar to a fruitcake, is it kind of like that? I was raised vegetarian and we've always had a cashew nut loaf for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner instead of Turkey. It sounds strange to those who are used to the other, but even now that I eat some meat I still crave and make the cashew roast with gravy and mashed potatoes each holiday season.
This is kind of odd to ask but does anyone know of alternative to using nuts. My cousin always has nut loaf for xmas but I can't eat nuts and wondered if there was a substitute for the substitute. ???
I was thinking maybe mushrooms as I have nephew who can't have protien and his mother makes mushroom burgers for him.
There are vegetarian roasts that can be made out of combinations of rice, beans, potatoes and other vegetables. A good web search engine will help you find alot of them. You'll find a few at an old vegetarian cooking site I did along time ago, haven't updated it in a long time .. http//www.wgts.org/cookbook . Most of the substitutes I can think of contain protein, so they wouldn't be suitable for your nephew and his allergy. But if you were looking for something for yourself, you could try recipes with tofu, gluten, or some of the other textured vegetable meat substitutes. I love gluten and try to make alot each time and freeze the extra. It's the protein that's left in unbleached flour when you've washed the starch out, and can be cut into slices or ground into burger for vegetarian cooking uses. There's a recipe for it on the website above.
Thanks for the link. It's very hard to find substitutes that do not contain protien. My nephews disease, not allergy, will allow him minute amounts of protien daily but too much will kill his brain cells.
As for the loaf without nuts I was just trying to come up with something both my cousin and I could both enjoy. I will try doing a search and see what I come up wth.