Recipe - Cherry Tea Bread

One half cup Walnuts coarsely chopped
2 One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Doubleacting baking powder
Three fourths teaspoon Baking soda
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 One fourth cup Sweet cherries in juice
Drained
8 tablespoon Unsalted butter softened
Three fourths cup Sugar
One fourth cup Honey
2 lg Eggs
1/3 cup Fresh orange juice

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Toast the chopped walnuts in a baking pan in
the oven for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside. Raise the oven
temperature to 350 degrees. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and
salt together into a bowl. In a second bowl, combine the cherries and the
nuts. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter until it is light
and fluffy; add the sugar and honey gradually, beating the mixture until it
is very light. Add the eggs, one at a time. With mixer at lowest speed, add
the flour mixture (reserving One fourth cup), alternating it with the orange
juice. Toss the cherrynut mixture with the reserved One fourth cup of flour, and
fold it into the batter. Turn the batter into a buttered and floured loaf
pan, approximately 9 x 5 x 3 inches.Bake the bread in the centrer of the
oven for 1 hour. Cool the loaf for 15 minutes in the pan; unmold the bread
on a rack to cool completely. Wrap it in plastic wrap and keep it a day
before serving.

Recipe By : Burt Wolf Eating Well

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