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- From: reid@decwrl (Brian Reid)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Cranberry bread
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- Date: 21 Nov 86 04:45:39 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CRANB-BREAD-1 D "19 Nov 86" 1986
- .RZ "GRANDMA MACKAY'S CRANBERRY BREAD" "A festive cranberry orange nut-bread"
- My grandmother MacKay clipped this recipe from the 1951 edition of the
- Pillsbury Bake-Off competition recipes, and we've made it a family tradition
- ever since. From time to time my mother and I have both tried to improve on
- the recipe, but it appears that the recipe is already perfect; every
- variation we have ever tried has been disappointing by comparison.
- .PP
- When I was a
- boy, before the invention of the food processor, making this bread required
- cutting the cranberries in half by hand, with a knife, and the person who
- brought 4 loaves of cranberry bread to the family Thanksgiving meal was more
- welcome than the person who brought the turkey. Now, between Baker's Secret
- loaf pans and Cuisinart slicer blades, you can knock out 8 perfect loaves of
- the stuff while watching one episode of Sesame Street. My grandmother still
- cuts each cranberry in half with a paring knife, and hers still tastes
- better than mine.
- .IH "2 small loaves"
- .IG "2 cups" "all-purpose flour" "200 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "granulated sugar" "200 g"
- .IG "1\(12 tsp" "baking powder" "7.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "baking soda" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "\(34 cup" "orange juice" "180 ml"
- (juice of one large orange)
- .IG "1 Tbsp" "grated orange peel" "15 ml"
- (grated peel of one large orange)
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "shortening" "30 g"
- .IG "1" "egg,"
- beaten
- .IG "1 cup" "cranberries," "110 g"
- halved or chopped
- .IG "1 cup" "walnuts or pecans," "115 g"
- chopped.
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 350 175 .
- .SK 2
- Grease the bottom, but not the sides, of two small loaf pans.
- .SK 3
- In a large bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking
- powder, baking soda, and salt). Blend very well.
- .SK 4
- Mix together the orange juice, orange peel, melted shortening, and beaten egg.
- .SK 5
- Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture.
- Mix only enough to blend uniformly.
- Mix in the cranberries and the nuts; stir gently.
- .SK 6
- Pour the mixture into the loaf pans. Push it to the corners, leaving the
- center slightly hollow.
- .SK 7
- Bake about an hour at
- .TE 350 175 .
- The loaves are done when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- .SK 8
- Cool completely before cutting. Do not try to serve warm.
- .NX
- It takes practice to know when to stop mixing the dough. If you mix too
- much, the bread gets a chewy texture to it, whereas it should have a very
- crumbly consistency, like a muffin or cornbread.
- .PP
- It really makes a difference in the texture of this bread to use a
- shortening that is solid at room temperature, like Crisco. It really makes a
- difference in the flavor to use fresh orange-peel and not powdered.
- I prefer walnuts to pecans.
- .PP
- It might seem sensible to try to use the same orange for the peel and the
- juice, but it is really more trouble than it is worth to try to peel a
- juiced orange or juice a peeled orange. I usually use two oranges, and eat
- the one that I took the peel from.
- .PP
- This bread keeps well in the freezer. Specifically, it keeps from
- Thanksgiving to Christmas. It also survives quite well being mailed by
- parcel post from Indiana to Maryland.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes preparation if you have a food processor, 2 hours
- baking and cooling.
- .I Precision:
- Measure carefully.
- .WR
- Brian Reid
- DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, USA
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