My roots are in baking.
I have always loved to bake, and long before I discovered that I rather liked cooking and crafting, I knew that I was quite good at producing baked goods.
So I may go on a little stream of baking.
I recently baked this bread for a sorority ceremony I held at my apartment, and I couldn't believe how good it was! Enjoy. (I'm not including pictures because the ones I took were awful. Also, everything is pretty self-explanatory!)
You'll need:
2.5 c. flour
2.5 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
2 T. margarine
1 c. honey
1 egg
grated rind of one orange
3/4 c. orange juice
3/4 c. walnuts, chopped
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees and get out a 9x5 loaf pan and spray it down with Pam.
then get your egg out so that it will be at room temp.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Beat the margarine until soft and then stir in the honey until they are blended. Separately, lightly beat the egg. Then stir it in until the honey-butter mixture. Add the orange rind and stir it thoroughly. Fold in the dry ingredients to the honey mixture in three batches, interspersing three batches of the oj. Once fully combined, stir in the walnuts.
Pour it into your prepared pan and bake it for about 60-70 minutes, until you can insert something (a cake-tester, a toothpick, a fork) and it comes out clean. Trust me, you want to wait. This is bread, not cookies so you do NOT want it to be gooey.
Once you take it out, let it stand for about 10 minutes to set, and then flip it over and it should fall right out of the pan!
EAT.
