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     Title: Date-Nut Balls
Categories: Candies
     Yield: 24 servings

     8 oz Whole pitted dates
   3/4 c  Sugar
   1/2 c  Butter or margarine
 2 1/2 c  Crisp rice cereal
     1 c  Pecans; chopped
          Flaked coconut
          Or powdered sugar

 Recipe by: Southern Living
 Preparation Time: 0:25
 Chop dates; combine dates, sugar, and butter in a medium
 saucepan.  Bring to a boil; cook, stirring constantly, 1
 minute.  Stir in cereal and pecans; cool mixture to touch.
 Shape into 1-inch balls, and roll balls in coconut or
 powdered sugar.  Yield:  4 dozen.

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