Applesauce Plum Bread

Description

A River of Recipes: Native American Recipes Using Commodity Foods by the USDA Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, public domain government resource—original source of recipe

• Can be frozen.

Ingredients

• ⅔ cup vegetable oil
• ½ cup egg mix + 1 cup water (or 4 eggs)
• ½ can plums, drained (15½ ounce can)
• ½ can applesauce (15½ ounce can)
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ½ cup raisins
• ½ cup walnuts, chopped

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Grease bottoms only of 2 loaf pans.
3. In a large bowl, beat oil, eggs, plums, and applesauce on low speed.
4. Gradually add flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and baking powder to applesauce mixture.
5. Beat all ingredients on low speed, scraping bowl constantly.
6. Gently stir in raisins and walnuts. Pour into pans.
7. Bake at 350°F until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.
8. Cool 10 minutes. Loosen sides of loaves from pans with knife; remove from pans. Cool completely before slicing.
9. Wrap tightly and store at room temperature up to 4 days or refrigerate up to 10 days.