Bread
Cranberry Orange Quick Bread Recipe
Prep Time | 30 minutes |
Cook Time | 60 minutes |
Servings |
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Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 3 cup ⁄4sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ⁄2baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup ⁄4butter shortening
- 3 cup ⁄4orange juice
- 1 tablespoon grated orange rind
- 2 eggs well beaten
- 1 cup coarsely chopped cranberries leave a few whole
- 1 cup ⁄2chopped glace green cherries optional
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Instructions
- Stir flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
- Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.
- Combine orange juice and grated rind with well beaten eggs.
- Pour all at once into dry ingredients, mixing just enough to dampen.
- Dust chopped cranberries and cherries with a tablespoon of flour, carefully fold into batter Spoon into a well buttered 1 1/2 quart casserole.
- Sprinkle a few floured whole cranberries over top of batter.
- Bake in a moderate oven,350 degrees about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.
- Cool in casserole 10 minutes, then remove.
- Store overnight for easy slicing.
- Frost with confectioner's frosting, (sift 2 cups icing sugar, very slowly add boiling water, a tablespoon at a time, until right spreading consistency, spread on slightly cooled bread).
- Also delicious sliced with butter or toasted under broiler, spread with butter and sprinkled with cheddar.