Fruit And Honey Loaf Recipes

CARROT HONEY LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine eggs, oil, honey and vanilla; beat until smooth. In another bowl, whisk next 7 ingredients for 30 seconds. Stir flour mixture into egg mixture just until combined. Add carrots; mix well., Pour batter into a lightly greased 9x5-in. loaf pan; bake until a toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

FRUIT AND HONEY COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine flour, walnuts, baking soda, allspice, cinnamon, and salt.
• In small saucepan over low heat, melt shortening and honey, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and pour into large bowl. Stir in brown sugar, eggs and milk until well blended. Slowly add dry ingredients. Fold in raisins, currants and dates. Cover and chill for 4 hours.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. Drop by spoonfuls 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes, until lightly colored.

FRUIT LOAF

Steps:

• Add water, oil, brown sugar, bread flour, gluten flour, milk powder, mixed spice, and yeast into the bread machine pan in the order suggested by the manufacturer. Select Fruit setting or the setting for Basic White Bread. Press Start.
• If your machine has a Fruit setting, add the golden raisins and peel at the signal, or around 5 minutes before the kneading cycle has finished.

FRUIT AND HONEY LOAF

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 300°F. Butter a 9-x-5-inch bread pan and set aside. 2. Place the honey and butter in a large mixing bowl and stir with a wooden spoon. Add the salt, egg, and buttermilk, and beat with the spoon until well blended. Add the remaining ingredients and stir just long enough to moisten the dry ingredients-do not overstir. 3. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. The loaf will be very brown and begin to shrink away from the sides of the pan. Cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes, then turn the loaf out of the pan. Finish cooling the bread on the rack before serving.

HONEY PAN DULCE WITH NUTS AND DRIED FRUIT

Steps:

• Place 1/2 cup warm milk and 1 teaspoon sugar in large bowl; sprinkle yeast over and stir to blend. Let stand until yeast dissolves and mixture looks foamy, about 5 minutes. Mix in 1/2 cup flour to form soft sponge. Cover sponge and let stand until very light and bubbly, about 30 minutes.
• Whisk eggs, honey, butter, lemon and orange peel, salt, remaining 1/4 cup milk, and 6 tablespoons sugar in medium bowl to blend. Stir egg mixture into sponge. Mix in 3 cups flour, 1 cup at a time, to form soft dough. Mix in additional flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, until dough is soft and just barely sticky. Turn out onto floured work surface. Knead dough until smooth and elastic, sprinkling with more flour by tablespoonfuls if still sticky, about 8 minutes.
• Butter another large bowl. Form dough into ball. Place in bowl; turn to coat. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rise in warm draft-free area until doubled in volume, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Gently press dough down. Sprinkle with all fruits and nuts; knead in bowl to distribute evenly.
• Remove center tube of an angel food cake pan and place an 8-inch-diameter tart pan bottom inside to create 12-cup baking mold. Spray mold with nonstick spray, then butter and flour pan. Form dough into round. Place in prepared pan. Cover with plastic wrap. Let rise in warm draft-free area until almost doubled in volume and almost level with top of pan, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375°F. Bake pan dulce until deep brown on top and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Let stand in pan 5 minutes. Turn out onto rack and cool completely. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap in foil and store at room temperature.
• *Available at some specialty foods stores and candy stores.

GINGERBREAD & HONEY LOAF

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and butter and line a 900g loaf tin. Put the honey, butter and sugar in a saucepan and warm over a low heat, stirring occasionally, until the butter has melted and the sugar dissolved. Remove from the heat and pour in the milk and vanilla, then set aside to cool.
• Tip the flour into a bowl with the baking powder, spices and a pinch of salt. Add the egg, then gently fold in along with the melted butter mixture. Once combined, tip into the prepared tin, place on a baking tray, and bake for 40 mins until springy to the touch and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool for 10 mins in the tin, then place on a cooling rack and leave to cool completely. Will keep in an airtight container for up to four days.