Fresh Strawberry Bread Food

FRESH STRAWBERRY SWEET BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly grease and flour a standard glass (8x5") loaf pan.
• Rinse, core and slice the strawberries; place in a small bowl and sprinkle with 1/2 cup sugar.
• In a large mixing bowl, blend together the remaining sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
• In a medium bowl, beat the eggs until foamy, then add the vanilla and melted butter. Make sure the melted butter isn't too hot-just barely melted.
• Stir in the strawberries. Combine the two mixtures, blending until the dry ingredients are moistened.
• Scrape the batter into the pan and bake for 60-70 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove the pan from the oven and cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes before removing the bread from the pan.

FRESH STRAWBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Cream shortening, sugar and vanilla until fluffy.
• Beat in egg yolks.
• Sift the remaining dry ingredients.
• Add the sifted ingredients alternately with strawberries to creamed mixture.
• Beat whites until stiff but not dry.
• Fold into berry mixture.
• Grease a loaf pan.
• Place batter into pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350Fº oven for about 1 hour.
• Remove to rack to cool.
• Remove from pan after 15 minutes and let cool completely.
• Freezes well.

FRESH STRAWBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• In a bowl, place the sliced strawberries. Sprinkle the slices with the 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight. This will create a nice syrup with the berries.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Blend together the flour, 1 cup sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine the oil, vanilla, eggs, strawberry slices and its syrup. Dump the strawberry mixture into the flour mixture, and mix just until blended.
• Pour the batter into a greased loaf pan (9 inches x 5 inches) and bake for approximately 50 minutes.
• HINTS: This bread is lovely with cream cheese. Egg substitute (like Egg Beaters) can be used instead of the eggs - just make sure you use the equivalent of 2 eggs. Chef Walter suggests variations of adding 1 1/2 cup chopped pecans or a bit of cinnamon to the batter, if you like.

FRESH STRAWBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
• Pour vinegar into a measuring cup. Fill with milk to the 1/2 cup measuring mark. Set aside.
• Blend sugar, cream cheese, and butter together using a pastry blender in a large bowl until combined and smooth. Add 1 egg at a time, blending after each addition. Add vanilla extract and mix until combined.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Stir together until combined. Fold a quarter of the flour mixture at a time into egg mixture until batter is doughy. Fold in milk-vinegar mixture until blended, making sure not to overmix. Mix in mashed strawberries with their juices just until combined. Pour dough into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.

STRAWBERRY-BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9- by 5-inch loaf pan.
• Roughly chop 1/2 cup of the walnuts, and finely chop the remaining 2 tablespoons, keeping them separate.
• Whisk together the flour, sugar, roughly chopped walnuts, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a medium bowl.
• Whisk together the oil, eggs, vanilla and zest. Fold in the bananas and strawberries. Fold the oil mixture into the flour mixture until just combined (it's OK if there are some lumps). Transfer the batter to the prepared pan, and sprinkle the top with the finely chopped walnuts.
• Bake until the bread is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edges, and let cool completely in the pan on a rack. The bread can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

STRAWBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour two 9 x 5-inch loaf pans.
• Slice strawberries and place in medium-sized bowl. Sprinkle lightly with sugar, and set aside while preparing batter.
• Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and baking soda in large bowl; mix well. Blend oil and eggs into strawberries. Add strawberry mixture to flour mixture, blending until dry ingredients are just moistened. Stir in pecans. Divide batter into pans.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes (test each loaf separately). Let cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn loaves out of pans, and allow to cool before slicing.

STRAWBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8-by-4-inch loaf pan. In a small saucepan, bring strawberries to a boil over medium heat. Cook, stirring, 1 minute. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt; set aside. With an electric mixer, cream butter, sugar, and eggs in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add flour mixture alternately with 1/3 cup water, beginning and ending with flour. Fold in reserved strawberries.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan, smoothing top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour (tent with foil after 45 minutes if top is getting too dark). Cool in pan 10 minutes. Run a knife around edges; invert onto a rack. Reinvert; cool completely.

STRAWBERRIES & CREAM BREAD (STRAWBERRY OR BLUEBERRY)

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; set aside.
• In small bowl, beat butter until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beat 1 minute or until light and airy. Add brown sugar. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in sour cream and vanilla.
• Stir into flour mixture only until dry ingredients are moistened.
• Fold in strawberries and nuts.
• Pour into a greased 8 x 4 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 60 to 65 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Let stand 10 minutes in pan.
• Turn out on rack to cool.

STRAWBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add egg, egg whites and oil; stir just until moistened. Fold in strawberries and nuts. Spoon into two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. , Bake at 350° for 70 minutes or until bread tests done. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

STRAWBERRIES 'N' CREAM BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in eggs. Add sour cream and vanilla; mix well., In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; gradually stir into creamed mixture just until moistened. Fold in strawberries and 1/2 cup nuts. , Pour into a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan. Sprinkle with remaining nuts. Bake 65-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

FRESH STRAWBERRY SANDWICH

Steps:

• Lightly butter the bread.
• Arrange the strawberry slices on the bread as close together as possible without overlapping.
• Sprinkle lightly with the sugar and add a few twists of black pepper if using, top with the other slice of buttered bread.

FRESH STRAWBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line with paper liners.
• Beat 3/4 cup sugar and butter together in a mixing bowl using an electric mixer until creamy. Add egg and mix well.
• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a small bowl. Add flour mixture and milk alternately to butter mixture until combined. Stir in vanilla extract. Gently stir in strawberries.
• Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups. Combine 3 teaspoons sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and sprinkle over tops of muffins.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.

STRAWBERRY BREAD I

Steps:

• Grease and flour a 9 x 5 inch pan well. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large mixing bowl, sift together sugar, flour, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda.
• In a smaller bowl, beat the eggs and oil. Stir in pecans and strawberries. Add egg mixture to the sifted ingredients, and stir until just combined.
• Bake for 1 hour, or until tester inserted in the center comes out clean.