Bishop's Bread
photo by Outta Here
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
2 loaves
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
- 591.47 ml flour, plus some to coat pans
- 295.73 ml firmly packed brown sugar
- 4.92 ml cinnamon
- 2.46 ml clove
- 1.23 ml nutmeg
- 4.92 ml salt
- 118.29 ml butter
- 118.29 ml chopped nuts
- 4.92 ml baking soda
- 236.59 ml buttermilk
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 236.59 ml raisins, currants (or other dried or candied fruit)
directions
- Heat oven to 350*. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans (8x4).
- Combine 2 1/2 cups flour, brown sugar, spices and salt in a mixing bowl. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in nuts. Remove 1/2 cup of the mixture and set aside.
- Mix baking soda into remaining flour mixture, then beat in buttermilk and eggs. Stir fruit into batter just enough to moisten.
- Scrape batter into prepared pans, and sprinkle with reserved flour mixture. Bake about 35 minutes, until loaves test done with a toothpick. Remove from pans and cool on a rack.
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