Cranberry Nut Bread Recipe
The cranberry nut bread is a cooked bread that is covered with a foil and slow cooked. Filled with cranberries, apples and walnuts, the cranberry nut bread is made with flour sugar, butter and eggs. Served warm with butter, it is a gourmet treat.
Ingredients
2 cups cranberries
1 med. cooking apple, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
1/2 cup walnuts
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsps. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
6 tbs. soft butter
1 egg
1 tbs. grated orange peel
1/2 cup orange juice
Directions
Put cranberries, apple, and walnuts through coarsest blade of food grinder; set aside.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a deep bowl.
Cut in butter until size of peas.
Stir in egg, orange peel and juice; then the cranberry apple mixture.
Stir until blended.
Spoon into greased 2 quart mold or two 1 pound coffee cans.
Cover with foil and tie.
Place filled mold or coffee cans on metal rack in a slow cooking pot.
Pour 2 cups hot water around mold.
Cover pot and cook on high for 2 1/2 - 3 hours.
Remove mold from pot.
Let stand several minutes; turn bread out on cooling rack.
Serve with warm butter.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a deep bowl.
Cut in butter until size of peas.
Stir in egg, orange peel and juice; then the cranberry apple mixture.
Stir until blended.
Spoon into greased 2 quart mold or two 1 pound coffee cans.
Cover with foil and tie.
Place filled mold or coffee cans on metal rack in a slow cooking pot.
Pour 2 cups hot water around mold.
Cover pot and cook on high for 2 1/2 - 3 hours.
Remove mold from pot.
Let stand several minutes; turn bread out on cooling rack.
Serve with warm butter.
