Recipe: Spicy Applesauce Bread (using whole wheat flour, oil, nuts, raisins, King Arthur flour recipe)

SPICY APPLESAUCE BREAD

1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1 cup Stone ground whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 cup nuts, chopped
1/2 cup raisins

Prheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.

Mix the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices together in a medium-sized bowl.

In a separate bowl, beat the oil, sugar, eggs, and applesauce together for 1 or 2 minutes until you've incorporated as much air as you can. Blend in vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry mixture, and stir just enough to blend. This will make a very wet batter. Pour into the prepared loaf pan.

Bake for about an hour or until the top of the loaf springs back when you press it with your fingertips. Let the loaf cool on a rack for 10-15 minutes before turning it out of the pan.

Makes 1 (9-inch) loaf
Source: King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook