Pawpaw bread
2 loaves
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | cups | Pawpaw pulp* |
| 1¼ | cup | Apple juice or other fruit juice |
| ¼ | cup | Vegetable oil |
| 4 | Eggs | |
| 1 | tablespoon | Vanilla |
| 1 | tablespoon | Fresh orange rind or |
| 1 | teaspoon | Dried orange rind |
| 1 | teaspoon | Nutmeg |
| ½ | teaspoon | Powdered cardamom |
| 6½ | cup | Buckwheat flour or |
| 4½ | cup | Whole wheat bread flour |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking soda |
| 1 | cup | Chopped pecans |
Directions
*You can substitute wild persimmons or bananas.
Mix fruit, juice, oil, eggs, vanilla, orange rind and spices in a blender or by hand. Mix the flour with the baking soda. Combine the wet and dry ingredients. Fold in nuts.
Put into 2 oiled 8½ x 4 ½-inch bread pans. Bake 1 hour in a preheated 350 F. oven or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
From "Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places" by 'Wildman' Steve Brill with Evelyn Dean.
William Morrow & Company, Inc. In food columnist Mary Alice Holt's 09/15/94 "New Magazine, Book Designed to Get You Cooking" article in "The (Elizabethtown, KY) News-Enterprise." Pg. D1. Posted by Cathy Harned. From: Cathy Harned Date: 09-25-94