3/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups plain flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup bourbon
7 1/2 oz. chopped dated
1 cup walnuts
1 unpeeled orange (ground up)

With electric mixer, cream butter with sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Sift flour with salt, soda and baking powder. Add to mixture alternately with orange juice and bourbon. Stir in dates, walnuts and ground up orange.

Bake in 2 loaf pans that have been buttered and floured. 350°F approx. 45 minutes.