ZUCCHINI-APPLE BREAD
INGREDIENTS:
4 cups
all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
2 cups shredded zucchini
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
5 eggs 1
cup shredded apple
Combine first 6 ingredients; set aside. Combine eggs, sugars, oil and
vanilla in a large bowl; beat at medium speed until well blended. Stir
in zucchini, apple and pecans. Add dry ingredients to zucchini-apple
mixture, stirring just until moistened. Spoon batter into 3 greased
and floured 8 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 3 inch loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for
50-55 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove to wire rack and cool
completely. Freezes well. Sells good at Church Bazaars. Can be
made in 8 or 9 individual small loaf pans.
Notes: Henry Adcock my bride's Dad, always kept us with plenty of
Zucchini squash when his garden started to produce. We both miss him a
lot. Henry and myself shared many days together on Blewett Falls Lake,
Pee Dee River, Anson County, NC fishing for catfish, crappie, largemouth
bass, migratory shad, Rock Bass and anything that would bite a bated hook or
lure. Mickey Porter February 25, 1999. We also enjoyed many fish
fries on the river bank after catching a mess of small catfish. It
just didn't get any better than that. Also, every once in a while, you
will find a
zucchini
plant that produces a
squash that is bitter as quinine.
Recipe from Joyce Porter and Rachel Myers.
Additional Notes: You can substitute crushed pineapple for the apple.
Following pixs taken along the way....I did very little in doing this
recipe, only used the mixer and stirred at a few of the different stages,
however I did lick the bowl and a couple utensils and was like a little kid
again in Mom's kitchen....the bread batter taste wonderful before it gets
into the pans and baked!
I believe most of the ingredients are displayed in this pix.
Pecans chopped the easy way!
First stage of ingredients ready to mix.
The little Kitchen Aid hand mixer works fine for small jobs not requiring
the larger table model.
Folding in the flour.
Folding in the chopped nuts, apple and zucchini.
Cake pans sprayed and ready for the mixture.
My bride adding the mixture to the pans.
Zucchini Apple bread ready for the 350 degree oven for 50 to 55 minutes
until done.
Fresh baked zucchini-apple bread allowed to cool down before removing
from pans.
Cooling loaves down on wire rack.
The aroma is out of this world. The contrasting textures and taste
makes this one of my favorite "sweet breads." Served with a steaming
cup of java or cappuccino, you will have to go back for seconds for sure.
Yours truly will not get to sample those loaves of bread since they will
become gifts for our neighbors! This recipe is a little labor
intensive but well worth the effort put forth.
Bill aka Mickey Porter 12-20-08.
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take
this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation
will be attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James
Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation,
King James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."
