Recipe: Cranberry-Apple Bread

Cranberry-Apple Bread
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From: Aunt Minnie Meltzer

1 1/2 cups bread flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup milk
3/4 cup cranberries, coarsely chopped
3/4 cup apple, finely chopped
3/4 cup walnuts, chopped

Glaze:
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 teaspoons milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

To make bread, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in a large bowl until well blended.

In another large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well blended.

Alternately beat flour mixture and milk into butter-and-sugar mixture, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Stir in cranberries, apples, and walnuts until just combined. Turn into greased and floured 9x5-inch loaf pan.

Bake about 50 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool bread 10 minutes in the pan on a wire rack. Remove loaf from pan and cool completely on rack.

To make glaze, combine confectioners' sugar and milk in a bowl until smooth. Drizzle over bread.