Yesterday I woke up feeling refreshed, relaxed, earlier than I’d anticipated and thought, “well why not just get a jump on the day?” It being the last day of 2011 and quite was a fine one, I thought I must make one more loaf of bread before this year is over. Yes indeed! Lets not push it though, go for a quickbread. I’ve got all these apples, sweet ones at that, plus plenty of almonds.
So I went to work, riffing on a recipe I found on www.cinnamonspiceandeverythingnice.com.
Now, that butter just did not want to soften. I prepared my dry ingredients, though I didn’t sift them, I do not believe sifting makes a gosh darn difference. Anyhow, I measured out the milk and the sourcream, carefully avoiding the smelly and/or fuzzy parts.
The butter was still hard. And so I did the dishes and wiped down the counter, starting attending to the pork chops on the menu for later in the day. At last, I gave up, I couldn’t wait any longer for the butter, and I began creaming it vigorously, soundly. With each rotation of my arm I knew that it would have been better to wait, I should have been patient, but sometimes the impetus of action overcomes sense. And so it was creamed and so I continued with my quickbread. By now it was practically done already!
So I put everything together, of course the oven was already preheating and so it tossed it in there, pit pat pit pat just like that, with a clap of hands wiping flour. I went to wash the rest of the fairly minimal dishes and saw on top of the microwave, sitting nearly at eye level, the eggs. Shit, I forgot to put in the eggs. I swiped the bread from the oven before it had barely started bubbling around the edges. I had sprinkled almonds on top of the loaf I suppose to denote the nuttiness of the bread inside, or perhaps because this is how it always looks on the serving suggestion. This suggestion gave way for those two sadly forgotten eggs. When I’d mixed as well I could, I tossed it back in the oven, and hoped.
Guess what. Bangin Bread!
Moist and delightful!
Even on days when you wake up poised to do everything right, things will go wrong, but you can fix them. Here’s my recipe:
Cream this:
1/4 cup room temperature butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
Add to creamed mixture:
2 eggs beaten
until light and fluffy (but apparently this step doesn’t actually matter).
Dry:
2 cups whole wheat bread flour (get it in your bulk bin, gainesville babies!)
1.25 tsp baking powder
1.25 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
.25 tsp allspice
.25 tsp nutmeg
.5 tsp salt
Wet:
1 cup milk (I used soy)
.25 cup sour cream
Add it all together, then:
2 cups chopped apples
2/3 cup chopped almonds
Pour it into a greased pan, bake at 350, about 45min-1hour.
