Fresh Pear Bread

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1-1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
4 cups finely chopped peeled ripe pears (about 4 medium)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions:
1. In a bowl, combine the eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla; mix well.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; stir into the egg mixture just until moistened. (Batter is thick like cookie dough)
3. Toss pears with lemon juice.
4. Stir pears and walnuts into batter.
5. Spoon into two greased 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pans.
6. Bake at 350° for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
7. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Yield: 2 loaves.

Courtesy of: http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Fresh-Pear-Bread

Easy Rolls

2 C HOT water
1 C mashed potatoes (microwave 1 c water with 1/4 to 1/2 c flaked instant potatoes)
1/2 Tbls salt
1/4 C oil
1 Cube melted butter
1/2 C sugar
1/3 C honey
Mix above ingredients on Speed 1; until combined.

Add:
2 C flour (should look like cak batter)
1-1/2 to 2 Tbls SAF yeast
3-5 C flour (until flour leaves sides of bowl)
Mix on speed 2 for 1 minute.

Add 1 more cup flour
Mix on speed 2 for 3-1/2 to 4 minutes.

Oil hands, rolling pin and ctting board. Roll to size of pie; cut into 12 wedges. Roll from wide end. Spray pam on cookie sheets. Will raise in 45 minutes on counter or you can quick raise in 150 degree oven. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. (until golden on bottom)

Courtesy of: Jamie Ward

Zucchini Bread

2 C. sugar
3 ½ C. flour
1 tsp. Soda
¾ tsp. Baking powder
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. Salt
1 C. vegetable oil
2 tsp. Vanilla
4 eggs
2 C. grated zucchini
1 C. nutmeats


Mix all ingredients together in one large bow. Pour into greased bread tins. Makes 2 large loaves. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Brown Bread

This bread is excellent for someone on a diet because it is very nutritious. You can bake the bread in small loves and freeze the ones that you don’t use right away.

2 Tbls. Yeast in ½ Cup water
3 Cups hot tap water
7 Cups Whole-wheat flour
2 Tbls. Salt
2/3-Cup Oil
2/3-Cup Honey

Add yeast and 6 more cups whole wheat flour. Mix in Mixer 10 minutes. Mold in Pans. Let rise 20 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.

Courtesy of: Jeanette Rekow

Sour Cream Banana Bread

1 C sugar
1/2 C oil
2 eggs
1 C ripe bananas
1/2 C sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Grease and flour bottom of pans. Beat sugar and oil; add eggs, bananas, sour cream and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Stir until dry ingredients are just moistened. I always do mini loafs - 350 for 45 min 50-60 min for 9x5.

Courtesy of Erica Hoffman

Becky's Banana Bread

3 Tbls Soft Margarine
1/3 C. Apple Sauce
1/2 C. Sugar
3/4 C. Mashed Bananas (2-4)

Combine and then add:
1 3/4 C Flour
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
3/4 tsp Salt

Bake 350 for 1 hour for 2 large loaves
Bake 350 45 min for 3 small loaves

Courtesy of Becky Draney

Butter Crusted Beer Bread

2 1/2 Cups Self-rising Flour
4 Tablespoons sugar
1 can beer (no light)

4 Tablespoons melted butter

1. Mix first three ingredients together until moist and sticky
2. Place dough in a buttered bread pan.
3. bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes
4. Take out of oven and spread 4 Tablespoons of melted butter on bread.
5. Bake another 20 - 30 minutes, until golden brown

Courtesy of Amy Stoddard

Pantry Secrets Bread

I recently went to a class by "The Bread Ladies", it was totally worth it. I have stopped buying bread because this is so easy, cheaper, healthier and delicious. You can use your wheat in your food storage. I make the bread a couple times a week because it is that fast and easy.

I recommend checking out their website for more details. They do sell some product as well as a how to DVD, if you can't attend one of their classes definitely get the video, it has 52 recipes you can make just from this dough.

http://www.howtomakebread.blogspot.com/

http://www.pantrysecrets.net/

Monkey Bread

3 tubes refrigerated biscuits
3-4 tsp. cinnamon
1 C. margarine or butter
½ C. white sugar
1 1/4 C. brown sugar

1. Cut biscuits into quarters and dip into mixture of white sugar and cinnamon.
2. Drop into greased pie plate.
3. Melt margarine with brown sugar and pour over biscuit.
4. Bake 350 degrees for 40 minutes (make sure it is done in the middle). Serve hot.

This is from by best friend Hannah.

Potato Cinnamon Rolls from Grandma Fern Coleman

1 ¼ CUPS INSTANT POTATO FLAKES
2 CUPS BOILING WATER
2 TBSP YEAST
1 TBSP SUGAR
½ CUP WARM WATER
1 CUP BUTTER
3 EGGS, BEATEN
1 CUP COLD WATER
1 CUP SUGAR
1 ½ TSP SALT
8 CUPS OF FLOUR (IT MAY TAKE A LITTLE MORE)

· In a small bowl mix ½ cup of warm water, 1 tbsp of sugar, and 2 tbsp yeast and let it rise about ½ hour.
· In a large bowl mix the 11/4 cups potato flakes and 2 cups boiling water. Stir well, add 1 cup cold water and 11/2 tsp salt and let cool to lukewarm.
· Meanwhile cream 1 cup shortening (or real butter) and the 1 cup of sugar. Beat in 3 eggs (I prefer the eggs to be room temp). Add cooled potato mixture and yeast. Mix well. Add flour starting with 51/2 cups (I always use more) and mix with dough hook or hand. Kneading well.
· Dough should be a soft dough but kind of sticky
· Cover and let rise about 1 hour.
· Roll out dough on floured or oiled board.
· Spread with butter, and sprinkle (generously) brown sugar and then cinnamon.
· Roll up like a jelly roll.
· Slice into 1” slices and place on greased cookie sheet. Let it raise.
· Bake at 350 degrees for about 15-20 minutes. (my oven cooks these better at 350 degrees so check yours carefully)

Variations:

Orange rolls
Add 2 tbsp orange juice concentrate and grated rind of 2 oranges to potato mixture after it has cooled. Frost with orange frosting and dip in nuts as desired.

Fruit filled rolls
Put a small amount of jam in the center of each cinnamon roll before baking will give delicious fruit filled rolls

Dinner rolls
Spread melted butter on dough, roll up like cinnamon rolls and slice. Then put in greased muffin tins.

This recipe was given to us by our neighbor, Keri Heath, it is her grandma's recipe. Neal is the one that actually makes this recipe and they are fabulous.