1 cup sugar
3/4 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup each: chopped dates and chopped walnuts
3 Well beaten eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Powdered Sugar

Sift dry ingredents together.
Stir in dates, nuts and eggs.
Pour into greased and floured (or use parchment paper) 15 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 1" jelly roll pan.
Bake at 350 degrees about 15 minutes.
While warm, cut into bars.
Cool and remove from pan, roll in sifted powdered sugar.

Here's a second version, baked in a smaller pan:

1 cup sugar
3/4 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup each: chopped dates and chopped walnuts
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup powdered Sugar

Sift together sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. Beat eggs, add dates and nuts, vanilla and flour mixture. Mix thoroughly.
Bake in greased 8x8x2 inch pan for 40 minutes in oven at 300 degrees.
Cool; then cut and roll in powdered sugar.

A word about baking Any type cookie...

Do your cookies always come out of the oven almost burnt on the bottoms before they are baked in the center?

Solve this easily! Go invest in Decent baking sheet pans, at least Two of them. Buy what are called 'Jelly Roll Pans,' which are simply half a sheet cake pan in size.

When baking cookies, 'double pan' them. Place the pan with the cookies in an empty pan the same size. That's it! The double layer of metal will keep your cookie 'bottoms' from burning. It may take a couple of minutes longer to bake a doubled pan of cookies, but no more over baked cookies!

Also Never Ever over mix cookie dough. You can beat the daylights out of that butter/sugar part, but once you add Flour, just mix it well, then stop. Over mixing after adding the flour will make your cookies...tough enough to build a wall.

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