Well ultimately I ended up buying crappy disposable pans from the grocery store rather than investing in decent pans for my own future use. They were a little small, but in spite of this, I feel that my [tag]baking]/tag] endeavor turned out quite well.
3 loaves of delicious [tag]cranberry bread[/tag] did I produce, and my understanding is that all were well enjoyed. I ate probably about the equivalent of one whole one myself, while my roommates got one of the other loaves.
The third was donated to a group of relative strangers, and I understand they too have enjoyed the bread.
I still think I might have gotten the proportions a tiny bit off. One of my roommates complained that it was too tart due to too many cranberries. Personally, I love the tartness conveyed by the abundance of berries, and think it was simply delicious, but, oh well, such are our differences in taste. Conveniently, this allowed for me to simply eat more of the available bread in my apartment.
All in all I’d say the baking and gifting both provided much needed and worthwhile breaks from finals preparations, which I am neglecting to write this even now.
Anyhow, here is the [tag]recipe[/tag] I used, though in retrospect, I don’t think now is the best time to be baking this, as cranberries, at least here in Illinois right now, aren’t so cheap as I understand they are in, for example, Massachusetts during the right season.
Cranberry-Orange Bread
Ingredients:
1 C Flour
1 C Sugar
1 T Baking Powder
Ω t Salt
C Orange Juice
1 T Orange Rind, grated
C melted butter (this is half a stick)
2 Eggs
3 C Cranberries (1 12oz bag)
1 C chopped walnuts
Instructions:
Preheat to 350∞F
Grate orange rind. I did this by peeling an orange with a vegetable peeler, then putting that and the sugar into a little mini food processor.
The rest of the instructions are more or less like other quick breads:
Beat the sugar and butter together until creamy.
Add the eggs, orange juice and orange rind (if it wasn't in the sugar) and beat together.
Then, mix in all the rest of the dry ingredients except for the berries and nuts.
Finally, stir in the berries and nuts.
Grease and flour a pan or some pans well (the bread is quite sticky) and then bake for 60-90 minutes.
Makes one large 9x5 loaf. If you double the recipe as I did, it makes 3 smaller loaves. Though I haven't yet tried yet myself, making muffins is also supposed to work well, though with a shorter baking time of only 30-40 minutes.
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