Cardamom Tea Loaf Food

CARDAMOM BREAD

Steps:

• Place all ingredients into bread machine in the proper order for your machine. Use the Dough cycle.
• At end of the Dough cycle, remove dough from the machine. Place on a lightly floured board, and let it rest, covered, for about 10 minutes.
• Shape dough into a loaf, and place it in a 9 x 5 inch greased bread pan. Cover, and let rise for 45 minutes.
• Just before baking, brush the top of the dough with a little milk, and slash a line down the center. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from pan, and cool on a wire rack.

CARDAMOM TEA

Steps:

• Place all ingredients in 2 1/2 cups of water, heat, but do not boil, for half an hour and strain.
• Add honey and milk. Enjoy!

CARDAMOM BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Grease one 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a small saucepan, combine the raisins and the rum.
• Cook over medium heat until simmering, then remove from the heat and allow to cool 10 minutes.
• In a large bowl, mix together the mashed bananas, brown sugar, canola oil, and eggs with an electric mixer for 1 minute.
• Sift together the all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground cardamom; stir into the egg mixture with a spoon until well blended.
• Stir in the walnuts and the rum soaked raisins last.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Allow bread to cool slightly before removing from the pan.

LEMON-GLAZED CARDAMOM PEAR TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease one 9 1/2-by-5 1/2-inch loaf pan or three 5 1/4-by-3 1/2-inch loaf pans.
• To make the bread, combine the oil, pears, egg, lemon peel and milk in a small bowl. In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cardamom seeds. Fold in the pear mixture until the dry ingredients are moistened. Stir in the nuts. Spoon the dough into the prepared pan or pans. Bake 55 to 60 minutes for a large loaf or 35 to 45 minutes for smaller loaves, or until they test done. Remove from the pan and cook on a rack.
• While the bread bakes, stir together the glaze ingredients. Spoon the glaze over the still-warm bread. Continue to cool.

FRUITY TEA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9x5" loaf pan (can also fit into three 5x3" mini pans).
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and then set aside.
• Stir together sugar, yogurt, oil, eggs, vanilla and zest.
• Add flour mixture to wet ingredients and stir gently until well mixed (don't over mix or the loaf will be dry). Stir in dried fruit and nuts gently.
• Pour batter into pan and bake for 45-50 minutes until pick comes out clean (if using mini pans bake 25-30 minutes).
• Cool on wire rack 10 minutes before turning out.
• Stir together the ingredients for the glaze - watching the amount of orange juice to make it a nice pourable glaze and not too runny.
• Drizzle over cooled loaf.

SCANDINAVIAN CARDAMOM TEA LOAF

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a loaf pan.
• 2. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside. Beat eggs and sugar together until creamy. Add dry ingredients and mix until combined. Mix in sour cream and melted butter.
• 3. Pour batter into prepared pan, baking until done, about an hour. Cool in pan for 15 minutes, then turn out onto rack and finish cooling. Dust with powdered sugar.