(A recipe from How to Bake a Perfect Life. )
These are actual texts from my sister a few days ago:
Feb 5, 2011 7:13 pm
Making sunshine fruit and honey bread 🙂
Feb 6, 2011 12:36 pm
OMG OMG OMG. That bread is soooooo good I could prolly eat the whole thing!!!
Feb. 7, 2011 12:26 pm
I can’t stop eating this bread ! I feel like the guy in the window in Chocolat. LOL
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I can’t promise you will like it as much as she does, but it’s one of my favorites, too. It would be an excellent offering at a book club.
RAMONA’S BOOK OF BREADS
Sunshine Fruit and Honey Bread
Sometimes a recipe is born from a moment, and this is the recipe that I came up with after my first night with Jonah. Filled with light and juice and tenderness, it is one of my favorite things. Try it with a cup of sweet chai.
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp kosher salt
½ cup butter, softened
½ cup raw sugar
½ cup dark honey
½ tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp orange extract
2 tsp grated orange zest
2 eggs
1 cup raspberries, whole
1/3 cup slivered, toasted almonds
Juice of one orange, mixed with enough powdered sugar to make a thin glaze
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9 x5 inch loaf pan
Whisk together dry ingredients. Cream butter, honey, and extracts and zest. Add eggs one at a time. Mix in the dry ingredients just until moist, then gently, gently fold in the raspberries and toasted almonds.
Bake for 55-60 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
Cool for 20 minutes, then tip bread out to a wire rack and cool thoroughly, then drizzle the top lightly with glaze.
How many eggs?
2 eggs. That was a typo in the original and I just fixed it. Sorry about that!
I’ve just got past that in the book and I’m definitely making it this weekend!
I’ve been meaning to make this since I got back from holidays (was difficult reading this in a hotel room, I wanted to rush to the kitchen immediately!)
My tummy’s rumbling…