Easy Quick Breads
By Brenda Hyde
Quick breads are easy, delicious and perfect for holiday
hostess gifts, before dinner treats or snacks. They can be
double wrapped with foil and frozen for two months.
The following recipes are some of our family favorites.
Milk and Honey Bread
Ingredients:
1/2 cup honey
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons melted butter
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
3/4 cup chopped pecans
1 egg, beaten
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter
loaf pan. In medium saucepan, combine
1/2 cup honey and milk, Stir over medium
heat until honey dissolves. Stir in melted
butter. Set aside to cool. Sift flour, sugar,
baking powder and salt into large mixer
bowl. Add pecans and toss to coat. Set
aside. Whisk egg into cooled milk mixture.
Add to flour mixture. Beat at medium speed
just until blended. Pour into pan and smooth
top. Bake for 65-75 minutes until toothpick
comes clean from center. Cool on rack 10
minutes, Remove and cool again on rack.
Applesauce Date-nut Bread
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup chopped dates or raisins
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup applesauce
3 tablespoons oil
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
In large bowl, mix nuts, dates, baking soda,
salt, applesauce and oil, and let stand 20
minutes. Add the flour, sugar, eggs and
vanilla and mix well after it rests. Pour batter
into sprayed 9x5 loaf pan, and bake 1 hour
or until knife comes clean. Cool 10 minutes
and remove. Make 1 loaf. 7 grams fat, 17
milligrams cholesterol.
Poppy Seed Bread
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter or margarine
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. almond extract
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
1 1/2 cups milk
1 tablespoon poppy seeds
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. salt
Preheat 350 degree oven. Combine sugar, butter, eggs, and extracts. Mix
on medium speed, scrape bowl often until light and fluffy, 2-3 minutes.
Add remaining ingredients. Beat 1-2 minutes more until mixed. Pour into
bundt or tube pan. Bake 50-65 minutes until done. Cool 10 minutes.
Cinnamon Bread with Apple Spread
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
4 tsps. baking powder
1 1/2 tsps. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup oil
2 tsps. vanilla
2 eggs
Streusel:
2 tbls. sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. margarine
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bottom of 9x5 or 8x4 loaf
pan.
In large bowl combine all ingredients; beat 3 minutes at medium speed.
Pour
into pan. Combine streusel items until crumbly. Sprinkle over
batter and swirl with knife to marble. Bake 45-55 minutes until
toothpick
comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes. Remove. Serve with spread below.
Apple Spread
8 ounce package cream cheese
2/3 cup apple, peeled and finely diced
1 tablespoon powdered sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Combine all ingredients in food processor or blender.
Process until mixed, scraping down sides. Makes
1 1/2 cups.
About the Author
Brenda Hyde is a wife, and mom to three, a freelance writer and
editor of Old Fashioned Living.
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