How to Recipes & Breads | Raisin Nut Bread Recipe

Recipe to make raisin nut bread. This is an easy recipe to cook raisin nut bread. Prepare and serve raisin nut bread for family or friends tonight! Cooking is fun with easy recipes check all my easy recipes here on eHow.

Things You'll Need

• 8 cups flour
• 3 Tbsp baking powder
• 2 Tbsp salt
• 2 Tbsp cinnamon, loosely packed
• 2 Tbsp nutmeg
• 4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 5 ½ cups applesauce
• 4 tsp grated orange peel
• 2 cups golden raisins
• 4 cups walnuts, broken into small pieces
• 8 eggs

Instructions

1. Step one in baking your raisin nut bread with this recipe is to sift flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg together into a large stainless steel mixing bowl.

2. Step two in cooking your raisin nut bread with easy recipes like this one, is to mix butter and brown sugar together until smooth; mix in eggs and applesauce until smooth again.

3. Add flour mixture to butter-sugar mixture and blend well. Add rest of the ingredients and mix well.

4. Pour the batter into four 9"x3"x5" loaf pans that have been sprayed with
   Pam. Bake @ 325* for 1 ½ hours.

5. Test with a toothpick in the center. Cool bread in the pans for 10 minutes, remove from pans and place on cooling racks.

6. The final step to make raisin nut bread with this recipe is to allow loaves to cool completely before slicing. Yield: 4 loaves/72 slices