Prune Quick Bread Recipes

QUICK PRUNE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• Sift flour; measure; add baking powder, soda, cinnamon, salt and sugar; sift again, add whole wheat flour and mix thoroughly.
• Combine egg, sour milk or buttermilk, prunes, prune juice and melted shortening or butter; pour into flour mixture and stir just enough to moisten the dry ingredients.
• Do not beat.
• Turn into a greased loaf pan (about 9-1/2"x5-1/2") and bake for about an hour, until a knife comes out clean when inserted in the middle.
• *Note on stewing prunes: Wash prunes and place in a saucepan with several lemon or orange slices; cover with cold water.
• Bring to a boil and boil briskly for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Sweeten to taste by adding up to 1/4 cup of sugar for every 1 cup of prunes in the last 5 minutes of cooking.

PRUNE YOGURT SPICE LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
• Mix flour, oats, baking powder, ground ginger, baking soda, nutmeg, and cloves together in a bowl.
• Whisk yogurt, prunes, sugar, and eggs together in a large bowl; add flour mixture and stir. Fold maple syrup into the mixture; pour into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Cool in the pans for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.

ITALIAN FRESH PRUNE PLUM BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F
• Lightly grease two 9 x 5 inch loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, and beat well after each addition. Add the orange rind and vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt, cinnamon, cream of tartar and baking soda. Add the dry ingredients and sour cream alternately to the creamed mixture, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
• Stir in the nuts and plums. Divide the batter between the two loaf pans.
• Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Let the pans cool on a rack for 10 minutes, then turn the loaves out of the pans and cool completely on the rack. Makes 2 loaves.
• Lucy Waverman's Cooking School Cookbook.

ORANGE PRUNE BREAD

Steps:

• cover prunes with water and cook until tender.drain and reserve 1/2 cup prune water.
• cool prunes, then dice.
• in a bowl, beat eggs slightly with fork and add oil, sugar, orange peel, extract and reserved prune water and orange juice -- mix well.
• add flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon.add nuts and diced prunes.
• stir only enough to moisten ingredients.
• grease and flour a 9x5" loaf pan.
• pour batter into pan and bake in 350* oven for 55-60 minutes or until it tests done when wooden pick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• cool in pan 10 minutes.
• remove from pan to rack and cool completely before slicing.

PRUNE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F and grease two loaf pans very well.
• Cream butter and sugar; add egg and blend well.
• Combine liquids together; add alternately with whole wheat flour to first mixture.
• Sift white flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
• Add with prunes and walnuts to first mixture; beat thoroughly.
• Pour into prepared pans and bake for an hour or until bread tests done.