Chapter 2:

Breads

This chapter features flaky breads and rolls, from yeast breads to quick breads to nut breads---Let your taste buds go wild with a luscious, flavorful loaf of Poppy Seed Bread. Have a bread machine? You'll treasure the flaky goodness of Bread Machine Butterflake Dinner Rolls.

• Banana Nut Bread
• Black Bottom Dessert Muffins
• Bread Machine Butterflake Dinner Rolls
• Boston Cremes
• Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls
• Bread Machine Raisin Bread
• Carrot-Cranberry Muffins
• Carrot Nut Bread
• Cinnamon Breakfast Bread
• Date Nut Bread
• Dinner Rolls
• Easy Broccoli Corn Bread
• Favorite Coffee Cake
• Homemade Garlic Croutons
• Hush Puppies
• Jalapeno Corn Bread
• Leavening Agents
• Lemon Nut Bread
• Mary's Yeast Biscuits
• Orange Nut Bread
• Pecan-Cherry Bread
• Poppy Seed Bread
• Pull-Apart Bread
• Pumpkin Nut Bread
• Single Meal White Bread for Bread Machines
• Southern Corn Bread
• Sausage Corn Bread
• Sopapaillas
• Traditional French Bread
• Zucchini Nut Bread
• Add Your Favorite Bread Recipe

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Here's a Sample Recipe from the Breads Chapter; Enjoy!

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Here's a delicious quick bread; easy to make, easy to eat!

PECAN-CHERRY BREAD

(From The American Gourmet Collection Cookbook)

2 cups Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
3/4 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Buttermilk
1 cup chopped Pecans
1 cup chopped Maraschino Cherries

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy.
4. Add dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately, beating after each addition until well blended. Fold in nuts and cherries.
5. Pour batter into a greased 9 x 5 x 3 loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 55 to 60 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack and cool completely. Yield: 1 loaf.
6. Glaze with Vanilla Glaze (below).

Vanilla Glaze

(From The American Gourmet Collection Cookbook)

1 cup Powdered Sugar, sifted
1/4 teaspoon Vanilla
1 tablespoon or more of Milk

Combine milk and vanilla. Pour over the confectioner's sugar and stir. Add more milk, if necessary, for the proper consistency. Pour over cooled bread, about 1/3 at a time.