New Recipes for a New Year

Monday, November 22, 2010

Cranberry Orange Nut Bread

Orleans Cranberry Stand
Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour, sifted
1 2/3 cups sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 orange, grate rind and juice of orange
1 egg, beaten
2 TBS oil, put in measuring cup and fill
to 3/4 cup with hot water
1 cup fresh cranberries, halved
1 cup chopped pecans

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour 2 loaf pans.  Mix dry ingredients with orange rind.  Add cranberries and pecans and stir into dry ingredients.  Add water, oil, egg, and orange juice.  Mix thoroughly.  Bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in the middle of the bread, comes out clean.

Glaze

Mix the juice of one orange with 1 cup sugar and heat over low heat until sugar dissolves.  Keep warm.

Remove bread from oven and pour half of glaze over each loaf of bread (while bread is hot).  Cool in loaf pans.

Notes from Liz
My daughters call this Christmas Bread.  We have this for breakfast on Christmas morning.  I created this recipe when someone gave me a lot of fresh cranberries.  I have made this in large batches for gifts.  You can easily make 8 loaves by using 4 times the ingredients.  I always use the disposable loaf pans because the glaze is very sticky and no fun to clean up plus ....who has 8 loaf pans?  It takes the same amount of time to make 2 as 8 (well a little more chopping time for nuts and berries) It is worth it!