What to bring to a morning potluck party being held out of area?

Okay, here’s what I would actually do. It includes cream cheese, which makes it breakfast-y, and it includes dates and nuts, which makes it healthy-ish. :slight_smile:

A friend and I have been reminiscing lately about how much we loved the little date nut bread with cream cheese sandwiches our grandmothers used to serve when we were young kids. One of those date nut breads came in a can, like B&M brown bread, the other one was maybe Ann Page (the A&P house brand). Neither of us had had this for decades, or even seen date nut bread in a store.

My cookbooks only yielded a recipe that described it as “light.” What we remembered was dark, dense, and moist. I looked online, and found that the King Arthur recipe sounded right. I made two loaves, and we served them in cream cheese sandwich form last Sunday at coffee hour. All of them were quickly scarfed down by adults and kids alike. We agreed that this was just like the favorite we remembered from childhood.

This particular recipe is very easy to make. It keeps well, travels easily, and isn’t something so common that it would be found everywhere. Make it a day or two in advance, wrap well, and toss the loaf–or loaves–in a bag with a couple packages of cream cheese, which will be nicely spreadable by the time you get there.

https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/old-fashioned-date-nut-bread-recipe