Cranberry-Cornmeal Quick Bread

Name: Cranberry-Cornmeal Quick Bread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 296 milliliters buttermilk; 237 milliliters grind whole grain cornmeal or regular cornmeal; 113 grams 3/4 cup dried cranberries (about; 2 larges eggs; 237 milliliters white whole wheat flour or regular whole wheat flour; 1 teaspoons maple extract; 118 milliliters pure maple syrup; 177 milliliters chopped pecans plus 10 pecan halves for garnish; 2 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters sugar; 237 milliliters unbleached all purpose flour; 118 milliliters (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted

Cranberry-Cornmeal Quick Bread is a vegetarian morn meal. This recipe makes 8 servings with 542 calories, 9g of protein, and 22g of fat each. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up maple syrup, buttermilk, unbleached all purpose flour, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F. Spray 9x5x3-inch metal loaf pan with nonstick spray.

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Oven

Whisk both flours, cornmeal, sugar, salt, and baking powder in large bowl.

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Baking Powder

Cornmeal

Sugar

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Whisk buttermilk, melted butter, maple syrup, eggs, and extract in medium bowl.

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Maple Syrup

Buttermilk

Extract

Butter

Egg

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Whisk

Bowl

Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture; stir just until blended. Stir in 3/4 cup chopped pecans and cranberries. Spoon batter into pan. Arrange pecan halves in row down center of batter.

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Pecan Halves

Cranberries

Buttermilk

All Purpose Flour

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Frying Pan

Bake bread until top is golden brown and paring knife inserted into center of bread comes out clean, tenting bread loosely with foil if browning too quickly, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool in pan on rack 20 minutes. Turn out onto rack; cool.

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Bread

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Frying Pan

A LITTLE AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap bread in foil and store at room temperature.

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Bread

Wrap

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Aluminum Foil

FURTHER AHEAD: Can be made and then frozen up to 2 weeks ahead. Wrap in foil, then place in resealable plastic bag.

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Wrap

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*White whole wheat flour is milled from 100 percent hard white wheat. It contains all of the germ and bran (and nutritional value) of regular whole wheat, but has a naturally lighter color and milder flavor. It's available at some supermarkets and specialty foods stores and from kingarthurflour.com.

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White Whole Wheat Flour

Wheat

Bran