Recipe - Persimmon Bread

3 One half cup Sifted allpurpose flour
1 One half teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Ground mace
2 cup To 2 One half cup sugar, to taste
1 cup Melted butter
4 Eggs, lightly beaten
2/3 cup Cognac or bourbon
2 cup Persimmon puree **
2 cup Coarse chopped walnuts OPT
2 cup Raisins OPT

** Use about 4 medium, very ripe persimmons to make puree. It's not
necessary to peel fruit).
Sift all five dry ingredients into a mixing bowl. Then make a well in the
center and add the melted butter, eggs, Cognac, persimmon puree, and, if
you like, the nuts and raisins. Mix the dough until it is quite smooth.
Butter and flour four molds; use either four 1pound coffee cans or 3 to
4cup charlotte molds, or round stainless steel bowls. Fill the prepared
molds about threefourths full. Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees. Cool the
loaves in the molds and turn out on a rack.
NOTE: Wrap in foil after cooling if you wish to keep the loaves. They will
keep nicely from 1 to 2 weeks.

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