100% FREE RECIPES

Welcome to Recipes 4 Food, Your free

online resource for over 20,000 food recipes.

Title: Apple-Molasses Bread
Category: Quick Bread Usenet
Serves: 1

Ingredients:

0.50	C	Butter
1.00	C	Sugar
3.00		Eggs
2.00	C	Flour, all-purpose
1.00	t	Baking powder
0.50	t	Salt
0.50	t	Cinnamon, ground
0.25	t	Nutmeg, ground
1.00	C	Applesauce
0.25	C	Dark molasses (treacle)
1.00	C	Raisins
0.50	C	Nuts, chopped

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg; set aside.
Combine applesauce and molasses.
Add dry ingredients alternately with applesauce mixture to egg mixture.
Fold in raisins and nuts.
Pour into a greased 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch loaf pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F.
for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Cool 10 minutes, remove from pan and continue cooling on a wire rack.
NOTES: * A simple, fragrant, apple-nut raisin bread -- I found this recipe on the back of a label for a baking loaf pan.
It is easy to make and because of the molasses it is very fragrant while baking.
Yield: 1 large loaf.
: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 15 minutes preparation, 1 hour baking, 30 minutes cooling.
: Precision: measure the ingredients.
: Lou Ann Puetz : Tektronix Inc.
(CAE Systems Division), Santa Clara, California, USA : {hplabs,amdcad,decwrl}!cae780!louann : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust