Orange Bread

Ingredients

• the peal of one large thick skinned orange
• one cup ground dates
• one cup boiling water
• one teaspoon soda
• one cup sugar
• two tablespoons melted butter
• one teaspoon vanilla
• one egg
• two cups flour
• one teaspoon baking powder
• one quarter teaspoon salt
• one-half cup chopped nut meats

Method

1. 1

   Grind orange peel and add to ground dates.

2. 2

   Pour boiling water over dates and orange peel.

3. 3

   Add soda, sugar, melted butter, vanilla, and beaten egg.

4. 4

   Stir in flour, baking powder, and salt.

5. 5

   Add chopped nuts.

6. 6

   Bake in loaf pans in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Natchez recipes (1900). The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ORANGE BREAD Grind the peal of one large thick skinned orange and add to one cup ground dates. Add boiling water to orange juice to make one cup and pour over dates and orange peel. Add one teaspoon soda, and one cup sugar, two tablespoons melted butter and one teaspoon vanilla. Beat one egg, light, and add to mixture. Stir in gradually two cups flour, one teaspoon baking powder and one quarter teaspoon salt. Add one-half cup chopped nut meats. Bake in loaf pans in moderate oven. Mrs, John Barnwell o -BREADS- BANANA BREAD Cream one and one-half cups sugar and one-half cup butter. Add twc eggs, one at a time. Add alternately three cups bread flour and one-half cup sour milk to which has been added one and one-half teaspoons soda and a pinch of salt. Mash very fine three extremely ripe bananas and mix. Add one cup chopped pecans. Bake in loaf pans in moderate oven. Mrs. John Barnwell NUT BREAD Two packages dates, two cups brown sugar, two cups pecans, one-half teaspoon soda, two cups boiling water

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