Imagine a fruit bread loaf packed with healthful chopped dates and walnuts, sliced and spread with cream cheese (O.K., the cream cheese is less healthful).

Or update the concept with soft goat cheese, Gorgonzola Dolce (a sweeter, softer, younger Gorgonzola cheese) or sweet mascarpone. How delicious!

If you like raisin bread, carrot bread (a dense loaf version of carrot cake) and zucchini bread, you’ll probably like date nut bread even more.

Make more than one loaf: They freeze really well, and you can enjoy a slice every morning with coffee or tea. Just like Mom.

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