Instructions: Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until fluffy. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture, alternating with bananas. Stir in orange segments, chocolate chips, coconut, almonds, cherries and dates. Pour into two 7x9-inch loaf pans, which have been sprayed with oil or greased with shortening. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/4 hours.

Makes 2 loaves.

Pat Says: Once you make this holiday bread, you will not want to have another Christmas or Thanksgiving without it! It is so hearty but not like a fruitcake.

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