Bishops Bread Recipes

BISHOPS BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Grease well a bread/loaf pan.
• If not the non-stick kind, line the bottom only with 3 layers of waxed paper and then grease.
• Into bowl mix flour, baking powder, and salt; then stir in chocolate chips, walnuts, dates and cherries until well coated with flour.
• In large bowl, beat the eggs well; then gradually beat in sugar.
• Fold in the flour mixture and mix well (this will be stiff) and pour into greased pan.
• Bake 1 1/2 hours or until cake tester come out clean.
• Cool in pan.
• Wrap in foil when removed from pan and store at room temp.
• Slice, serve and enjoy!
• This is much better the next day!

BISHOP'S BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat sugar, eggs and extracts. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt; stir in almonds, walnuts, dates, cherries and candy bar. Stir into egg mixture until blended., Pour into a greased and floured 9x5-in. loaf pan. Press down firmly to eliminate air spaces. Bake at 300° for 2 hours. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

BISHOP'S BREAD - A CHRISTMAS FAVORITE

Steps:

• Prehead Oven to350°.
• Mixture 1.
• In mixing bowl, beat egg with electric mixer for about 1 minute.
• Add sugar, oil, and vanilla to the egg. Beat well.
• Blend in the buttermilk.
• Mixture 2.
• In another bowl sift together the flour, soda, and salt.
• Add pecans, cherries, raisins or dates, and chocolate chips. Blend gently - Careful not to mash the cherries.
• Combine Mixture 1 and Mixture 2. Blend gently - Careful not to mash the cherries.
• Pour the batter into a greased and floured 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• Bake in preheated 350° oven for 1 hour, or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. (If cherries weren't drained well enough, the excess moisture will increase baking time).
• Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove to a rack to cool completely.

BISHOP'S BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375-degrees. Grease a 9"x13" baking dish. Set aside.
• 2. With mixer, combine flour, brown sugar, and salt. Cut in shortening with a pastry blender until it resembles the texture of coarse meal. Set aside 3/4 cup of this mixture in a small bowl to use as the topping.
• 3. Add baking powder, soda and cinnamon to the bowl and mix. Stir in milk, vinegar and egg until mixture is smooth.
• 4. Pour batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle with the reserved crumb topping.
• 5. Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden. Allow to cool in pan before cutting into 3"x2" squares. Serve warm or at room temperature.

BISHOP'S BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Separate the eggs.
• Put the yolks in one bowl of your Kitchen Aid.
• Put the whites in another bowl.
• Whip egg whites until stiff peaks form.
• Set Aside.
• Beat yolks in the other bowl, add the rum or brandy, and sugar. Beat to combine.
• Add the flour, salt and baking powder. Beat to combine.
• By hand, fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Be sure to incorporate and get all the dough from the bottom mixed inches.
• Add the fruit and nuts and mix well.
• Divide evenly into 4 small bread loaf pans that have been greased.
• Flatten with the spatula.
• Bake at 325 deg. for one hour.
• Let cool and wrap in foil and store in ziploc bags or freeze.

BISHOP'S BREAD

Steps:

• Mix first three ingredients.
• Add nuts, fruit and chocolate and mix lightly.
• Beat eggs and sugar together and stir into first mixture.
• Line a 9” x 5” x 3” loaf pan with brown paper; butter paper.
• Pour in mixture.
• Bake in slow oven (325°F.) about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Turn out on rack to cool.
• Bread is best if stored, well-wrapped, for a day or two before slicing.

BISHOP'S BREAD II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition.
• In a separate bowl, sift together flour, salt and baking powder. In a third bowl, combine the buttermilk, baking soda, vanilla extract and maraschino cherry juice.
• Stir the milk mixture and flour mixture alternately into the egg mixture until a soft batter is formed. Fold in cherries, chocolate chips, dates, coconut and pecans. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in preheated oven for 90 to 120 minutes, until loaves are firm and a toothpick inserted into the center of each loaf comes out clean.

BISHOP'S BREAD

Steps:

• 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.

7 EGG WHITE BISHOPS BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Whip egg whites with cream of tartar, starting at slow speed for a minute then increase speed to medium-high until the soft-peak stage. Turn speed to slow and add sugar gradually.
• Choose your mix-ins and combine (whatever you want - you should just have about 1 cup total).
• Sprinkle salt on top of egg whites then sift flour on top of egg whites about 1/4 cup at at a time and fold it in along with part of your mix ins. Continue with flour and mix-ins, folding gently until all is added and totally incorporated (avoid overworking that tends to deflate the egg white foam).
• Pour into well greased parchment- or foil-lined bread pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
• Peel foil/parchment off and enjoy while still warm.