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Fresh baked cranberry bread for Thanksgiving breakfast
If you are having visitors trickle in during the day on Thanksgiving, this cranberry bread is a great breakfast or brunch idea. It's festive and easily made ahead and good served cold or at room temperature. This recipe is adapted to make optimum use of a food processor, but there is nothing you can't just as well do by hand without one.
| 1 12oz bag of cranberries | 3 tsp baking powder |
| peel from two oranges | 2 tsp salt |
| 1 cup chopped pecans | 1 tsp baking soda |
| 4 cups flour | 2 eggs |
| 2 sticks (1/2 lb) unsalted butter | 1-1/2 cups orange juice |
| 1-1/2 cups sugar | 2- 9" x 5" loaf pans |
- Preheat the over to 350 degrees F.
- Chop the cranberries coarsely in a food processor. Set aside.
- Chop the orange peel in the food processor. Set aside.
- Chop the nuts in the food processor and set aside.
- Put the flour in the food processor and add the butter, cut into tablespoon-sized pieces. Pulse until uniform.
- Add the sugar, baking powder, salt and soda and pulse briefly to mix.
- Place the flour mixture in a large mixing bowl.
- Add the orange peel and orange juice and eggs and mix until uniform.
- Add the cranberries and nuts tossed with a Tb of flour and mix.
- Butter the loaf pans and cut a strip of parchment paper to cover the bottom of each loaf pan.
- Add half the batter to each and bake in the 350-degree F oven for 55 minutes.
- Check for doneness, by inserting a toothpick in several places. If it does not come out clean, bake about 5 minutes. Time may vary between loaves made at the same time.
- Remove from pan and allow to cool. Wrap and refriegerate until you are ready to use it.
Preparation notes
You can substitute walnuts for the pecans. We experimented with omitting the parchment paper, and it is probably a good idea, but you can omit it if you butter the pan well. However, the bread is cake-like and will crack and crumble until it is cooled, so you should wrap and cool it before attempting to slice it.
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