Orange Bread
From mbeards2 15 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is an old family recipe, the kind written on a yellowed recipe card, splattered with stains. It brings back memories every time I bake it. It has a delightful orange flavor and moist texture and an incredible orange glaze.
Ingredients
- 2 fresh oranges shopping list
- 1 cup of raisins shopping list
- 2 cups of sugar shopping list
- 2 cups of buttermilk shopping list
- 1 (scant) cup of butter shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- 2 teaspoons of salt shopping list
- 2 teaspoons of baking soda shopping list
- 4 cups of flour shopping list
- 1 cup of sugar shopping list
- fresh orange juice shopping list
How to make it
- Butter and flour 2 loaf pans.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Cut the oranges in half and squeeze the juice from all of them. Save the juice. Mix one cup of sugar with juice and set aside.
- Grind the rinds from the two oranges and the 1 cup of raisins. Set aside.
- Sift the flour together with the salt and baking soda and set aside.
- Cream together the butter and 2 cups of sugar, then add the eggs and then the ground orange-raisin mixture.
- Gradually blend in the flour and the milk to the orange mixture.
- Pour into the loaf pans and bake for 45 minutes or until the loaves test done.
- Remove the loaves from the oven and immediately pour the orange juice with sugar over the tops of each loaf.
- Let the bread mellow for a day before cutting.
- NOTES- As I mentioned, this is an old recipe and food processors weren't invented yet. I have a "grinder" that I used for the orange rinds and raisins. I don't know how a modern food processor would work on this.
- NOTES2-The recipe didn't mention the type of oranges to use. I used oranges with "thinner" peels, they had less of the white pith. Nor did it mention size of oranges. Oranges vary greatly in size. I used what I considered to be "medium" oranges. I think this recipe is very forgiving in that respect and it depends on how orangey you like things.
The Rating
Reviewed by 8 people-
Sounds wonderful! Nothing like our ''special memories'' from some of our old recipes.Like when I first started cooking, I burned everything and thought the recipe was ''just too hard to do''. Lol, now that I'm a lot older, I can't believe I burned ev...more
bluewaterandsand
in GAFFNEY loved it
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~Hello~
Thank-you so much for sharing this
Most Luscious "5"FORK!!!!! Orange Bread~
Grinding the Oranges and Raisins is a good idea~
I am looking forward to trying your
"Special Memory" recipe~(^_^)~
~Blessings~
~*~...more
mjcmcook
in Beach City loved it
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I love anything orange & this bread sounds wonderful.I can't wait to bake it & taste it. Thanks for sharing & 5 forks
brianna
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