Recipe - Quick And Easy Apricot Bread

4 cup Sifted flour
2 tablespoon Baking soda
1 pound Dried apricots; cut in small
pieces
2 cup Water
2 cup Sugar
Three fourths cup Shortening
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon Ground cloves
One half teaspoon Ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs; beaten

Sift flour with baking soda; set aside. Cook apricots with water, sugar,
shortening, spices and salt for 5 minutes. Cool apricot mixture.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add eggs to sifted dry ingredients to cooled
apricot mixture. Pour mixture into 2 greased 5x9 inch loaf pans. Bake in
oven for 1hour. Makes 2 loaves.

Recipe by: Home Cooking July 1996 Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #731 by
L979@aol.com on Aug 9, 1997