Raw Apple Bread


Photo: Lady Catherine Gourmet
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Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tsps. baking powder
1 1/2 tablespoons sweet or sour milk
1 cup coarsely ground or finely chopped unpeeled raw apples
1 tablespoon tsp vanilla or 1 rum
1/2 cup broken nut meats
Vanilla Glaze:
1 cup powered sugar
3 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

1
Cream the butter, then cream in the sugar til light and fluffy.
2
Beat in the eggs one at a time if mixing by hand: add both at once if using an electric mixer.
3
Sift the dry ingredients together. If mixing by hand, add the egg mixture alternately with the combined milk, flavoring, apples, and nuts.
4
With a mixer, put them all in together, turn the spatula while turning, just long enough to mix. Do not over mix.
5
Turn into a well greased loaf pan or into aX 9 inch greased and floured square pan.
6
Bake in a 350 degree oven about 35 minutes for the square pan, about 55 minutes for the loaf.
7
Test for springiness with a fingertip. Let the cake cook in the pan on a rack for about 5 minutes, then loosen and turn out onto the rack to finish cooling.
8
Vanilla Glaze: Combine the rest of the ingredients in saucepan and stir until a thickened glaze forms. Drizzle over the cake.

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About

Often served as a tea bread but really sweet enough to be a cake.

Adapted From James Beard

Tags:

Cake
Baked Goods
bread

Yield:

8.0

Added:

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 12:18am

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