Cheddar Apple Bread originally Old English Cheese & Apple Loaf via The Art of Bread |
- 1 teaspoon oil, to grease pan (we just used nonstick cooking spray)
- 3-1/2 cups unbleached flour (regular white flour, right?)
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 apples, peeled, cored and grated (we used about 2 cups dried apples, chopped)
- 4 ounces cheddar cheese, grated
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup milk
- rolled oats, to sprinkle (totally forgot about this)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350F (180C, Gasmark), grease a 9x5x3" baking pan.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Rub butter into the flour mixture quickly with your fingertips until the mixture resembles the texture of coarse breadcrumbs (using your fingertips? How about one of those dough cutters? Why make things harder and messier than it needs to be?)
- Stir in the apples and cheese into the flour mixture. Add the beaten eggs until evenly blended (ok, if you have skipped my optional steps, you may find yourself staring at a bowl of clumpy and mostly dry flour. This was my WTF moment. Something very important seemed to be missing from the recipe. Like something to make it into a dough. The fact that the next step refers to "spooning the batter" indicates something the consistency of dried Play-Doh was not what I was looking for. Just go ahead and mix in that milk and yogurt now.) Mix until evenly blended.
- Spoon the batter into the pan (see? I told you. "Spoon." You'd be better off with a broom and dustpan if you don't add some liquid) Sprinkle with oats (I was so pissed about this recipe seemingly missing ingredients that I totally forgot about the oats.)
- Bake for 1-1/2 to 2 hours (we went for about 1-3/4 hours) until golden brown and well-risen. Turn out on a wire rack to cool.
Good Times! |
I found this exact recipe in a book called Ultimate Bread published by Reader's Digest. I also wondered how it would work with only 2 eggs for liquid. That's when I started googling and came across this post - thank you! I only had a bit of plain yogurt so I did the opposite - more milk and less yogurt. It turned out great! I sometimes wonder how unworkable recipes get published!?! Thanks again for your help. Rachel
ReplyDeleteI am always amazed at published recipes filled with typos. I just did a recipe a couple days ago that has you preheat the oven to 400. Then it never mentions the oven again.
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