AMARETTO FRUIT BREAD

1 3/4 cups flour
2/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup coarsely chopped candied cherries
1/2 cup coarsely chopped glazed pineapple
1/2 cup chopped mixed peel
1/2 cup toasted slivered almonds
1 cup milk
1/4 cup canola oil
1 egg
3 tablespoons amaretto liqueur
1 teaspoon almond flavoring

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.

Measure flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. Stir until blended. Make a well in center.

Beat together milk, oil, egg, amaretto, and almond flavoring. Pour into center of flour mixture.

Immediately add cherries, pineapple, mixed peel and nuts. Stir just until dry ingredients are lumpy. Spoon batter into pan. Smooth top.

Bake until knife inserted into loaf, right to pan bottom, comes out quite clean, from 1 hour and 5 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Store, covered, at room temperature for up to 3 days, or freeze.

Makes 1 loaf