Hazel's Recipe Files: Bread, Rolls, Biscuits, Waffles

Peanut Butter Bread

• 3/4 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine, softened to room temperature
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder, double-acting
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 cup milk
• 1 Tb grated orange rind

Grease a 9-by-5 inch loaf pan; set aside.

In small bowl, with a fork, beat peanut butter and butter or margarine until fluffy. In medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking poweder, and salt and add to peanut butter mixture, mixing only until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

In small bowl, beat egg slightly, stir in milk and orange rind, then stir into flour mixture just until moistened. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in a 375-degree oven for 1 hour or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool in pan 10 minutes before inverting onto wire cake rack to cool completely. Makes 1 loaf.

July 1988. Taken from Orange County Register, 30-Jun-1988.

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