Date Delights

A delicate little date cookie, rolled in powderd sugar.

3/4  cup  butter or margarine
1-1/2  cups  sugar
1  cup  buttermilk
2  Tbs  water
1/2  tsp  baking soda
1  tsp  salt
1  tsp  baking powder
1  cup  chopped pecans
3  cups  flour
1  cup  chopped dates
Powdered sugar

Cream butter and sugar. Mix soda with water. Add to buttermilk. Add this alternately, with flour, salt, and baking powder to the butter mixture. Fold in dates and nuts. Bake on a greased and floured cookie sheet with edges, @350 degrees for 25 minutes.

Cut into narrow slices while still warm. Roll in powdered sugar.