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August 2, 2011
Carrot Bread
Old-Fashioned Breads
Prep time:
15 minutesbaking time:
1 hour“My mother didn't like carrots as a child, so her mother never told her the delicious secret of this bread.”
Ingredients
Serves 12
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups grated carrots
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
1
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Grease and lightly flour a 9 × 5-inch loaf pan.
2
Combine granulated sugar, vegetable oil and eggs in a large bowl and mix well.
3
Sift flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt into a medium bowl. Add to sugar mixture and mix well.
4
Add carrots and walnuts to flour mixture and mix well. Spoon into prepared loaf pan.
5
Bake bread until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Transfer loaf to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Grandma's Secret Tip
Grandma's Secret Tip
For lunch or a snack, Grandma made us "ant sandwiches." She spread peanut butter on a slice of carrot bread, then arranged raisins on top of the peanut butter for the "ants." Since the grown-ups turned up their noses at our "ant sandwiches," we naturally loved them all the more.
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