Today I made a favorite family Christmas treat.

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Date Nut Bars.
I remember my great aunts Alice and Elizabeth (for whom I am named...both of them) making them. They gathered the pecans from my grandmother's yard and shelled and picked out the nut meat. They bought whole dates which they probably had to remove the pits and then chop them. They creamed the butter and sugar by hand and added all the other ingredients, mixed and baked them.

Today, I used my Kitchen Aid mixer on the butter and sugar, used packaged chopped pecans and dates...took 10 minutes to mix all the rest and bake them.

I wonder if theirs were better, they are both long gone. I wonder if I would make them if I had to do all they work they did.

Mine are still good, though and bring wonderful memories.