Apple Bread

     It been awhile since I last posted to my blog, I am sorry for keep you waiting. I have been cooking at my parents’ house in Florida. I still have no kitchen here in Ontario, Canada after the BIG FLOOD.  So I used my sister’s kitchen to make my favourite bread.

This kind of bread is called Quick Bread, it doesn’t need yeast and you don’t need to knead. You simply mix the ingredients, though you do need to do a bit of work on the main ingredients such as peeling and shredding the apple.

This recipe is great for people who want to learn how to make bread. You can eat it for breakfast, snack, dessert and any other time you want an apple bread fix.

There are few ways to shred apple; you can hand shred it with a grater, or use a chopper.  Be careful if you use a food processor.  Too long and you have applesauce not shredded apple.

Have fun!

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp ground cinnamon

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp baking powder

1/8 tsp ground cloves

1 beaten egg

1 cup sugar (you can use less sugar, about half cup)

1 ½ cup shredded, peeled granny smith apple

¼ cup cooking oil (such as vegetable or canola oil)

1.     Pre heat oven to 350 F

2.     Grease the 8x4x2 inch loaf pan; set aside. In a medium bowl combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, baking powder and clove. Make a well in center of flour mixture; set aside.

3.     In another medium bowl combine egg, sugar, apple and oil. Add apple mixture all at once to flour mixture.

4.     Stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy not smooth so don’t over mix it) Spoon batter into prepared pan.

5.     Bake in the oven for 50 to 55 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.

6.     Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack. (I said this but sometime I like to eat the bread while it is still warm)

7.     I like to wrap and store overnight before slicing because I find it tastes even better than when it is still warm.