After one year and 104 recipes, I finished the Brooks Bakes Bread Project on March 27, 2012. You can still find me baking and cooking at my new blog, Tangled Up In Food.

Categories: Quick Fruit Bread

Quick Fruit Bread
January 20, 2012

by stacy
Published on: January 20, 2012
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“This can be made with either candied orange or chopped marinated prunes, or a combination of both…It is an excellent gift bread, makes pleasant toast, and keeps well.”
-James Beard, Beard on Bread

I couldn’t track down any candied orange, and know from Prune Bread that I hate prunes, so I used candied pineapple to make my Quick Fruit Bread.

Here are the ingredients:

Quick Fruit Bread Ingredients

Since this is a baking powder bread, all I had to do was chop up the pineapple, melt the butter, mix everything together, and pour the batter into a 9 x 5 loaf pan.

Quick Fruit Bread Before Baking

After 47 minutes at 375 degrees, the bread was done as gauged by my cake tester.

Quick Fruit Bread

Quick Fruit Bread tastes like a baking powder biscuit studded with chunks of whatever fruit you happen to use.  I discovered that I like candied pineapple about as much as I like prunes, so it wasn’t much of a hit with me.  Mike thought that it was good.  Since I deviated from the recipe in a pretty major way, I don’t feel like I can pass judgement on it one way or the other.  However, I do think that I would have enjoyed it more if I had used either the candied orange called for, or dried apples and some cinnamon.

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I'm a paralegal living and working in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Besides baking, blogging, and eating bread, I love knitting and enjoying the Minnesota outdoors. My husband, Mike, is the Brooks Bakes Bread website developer, bread photographer, and chief taste tester.
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