Sweet Bishops Bread Recipes

BISHOP'S BREAD I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• Beat egg in mixing bowl until frothy. Add sugar, oil, and vanilla. Beat to blend. Mix in buttermilk.
• In another bowl measure the flour, soda, and salt. Stir to mix well. Add walnuts, cherries, raisins, and chips. Mix together. Add all at once to liquid batter. Stir only until just combined. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour or until bread tests done. Let bread stand for 10 minutes then remove from pan and let cool on a rack.

BISHOP'S BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat sugar, eggs and extracts. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt; stir in almonds, walnuts, dates, cherries and candy bar. Stir into egg mixture until blended., Pour into a greased and floured 9x5-in. loaf pan. Press down firmly to eliminate air spaces. Bake at 300° for 2 hours. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

SWEET BISHOP'S BREAD COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease with vegetable shortening, the sides and bottom of an 8-inch by 8-inch square baking pan.
• In a medium mixing bowl, thoroughly combine the flour, brown sugar, and salt.
• With a pastry blender or a fork, cut the butter into the flour-brown sugar mixture until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs (as if you were making pie dough). Measure and set aside 3/4 cup of this flour-brown sugar-butter mixture.
• To the remaining flour-brown sugar-butter mixture (not the 3/4 cup mixture that you set aside), thoroughly stir in the baking powder, soda, and cinnamon.
• Add the beaten egg and buttermilk or sour milk; beat until the batter is smooth.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and spread evenly.
• Sprinkle 3/4 cup reserved crumb mixture evenly over the top of the batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the coffee cake comes out clean. (TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE, check the cake for doneness after its been in the oven for 40 minutes).
• Cool 10 minutes on a wire cake rack.
• Cut the coffee cake into 9 squares, each square being slightly under 2 and 3/4 inches in width and slightly under 2 and 3/4 inches in length.
• Serve warm.

BISHOPS BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Grease well a bread/loaf pan.
• If not the non-stick kind, line the bottom only with 3 layers of waxed paper and then grease.
• Into bowl mix flour, baking powder, and salt; then stir in chocolate chips, walnuts, dates and cherries until well coated with flour.
• In large bowl, beat the eggs well; then gradually beat in sugar.
• Fold in the flour mixture and mix well (this will be stiff) and pour into greased pan.
• Bake 1 1/2 hours or until cake tester come out clean.
• Cool in pan.
• Wrap in foil when removed from pan and store at room temp.
• Slice, serve and enjoy!
• This is much better the next day!

BISHOP'S BREAD II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition.
• In a separate bowl, sift together flour, salt and baking powder. In a third bowl, combine the buttermilk, baking soda, vanilla extract and maraschino cherry juice.
• Stir the milk mixture and flour mixture alternately into the egg mixture until a soft batter is formed. Fold in cherries, chocolate chips, dates, coconut and pecans. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in preheated oven for 90 to 120 minutes, until loaves are firm and a toothpick inserted into the center of each loaf comes out clean.

CHRISTMAS BISHOP'S BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla., In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Fold in chocolate chips, raisins, pecans and cherries., Transfer to a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack., In a small bowl, mix glaze ingredients until smooth. Drizzle over warm bread.

BISCHOFSBROT (BISHOP'S BREAD)

Steps:

• Cream the butter and one-half cup of the sugar. Slowly add five of the egg yolks and blend thoroughly. (The remaining egg yolk may be saved for another use, or discarded.) Add the lemon and orange rind.
• Beat all six egg whites with the remaining sugar until stiff. Add to the mixture.
• Add the raisins, almonds, chocolate bits and flour. Lightly butter a 10-inch-by-3-inch-by-5-inch loaf pan and sprinkle with flour.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. The bread is done when no imprint is left when finger-tested in the center.
• Cool the bread on a rack and decorate with powdered sugar and almonds.