Orange Juice Bread Food

ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and both sugars together with an electric mixer. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then mix in the orange juice, vanilla, and orange zest. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, orange zest, and vanilla and mix together well. Generously butter and flour a 10 inch bundt pan and scoop the batter into it, smoothing the top with a spatula. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the sides shrink away from the pan and the center of the loaf springs back. Cool the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a round platter. Sprinkle a little confectioners sugar over the top of the bread and serve warm or at room temperature, accompanied by small pots of cranberry butter.

ORANGE LOAF

Steps:

• Stir together flour, baking powder, salt, and nuts.
• In a large bowl, beat together butter or margarine and 1 cup sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in rind and 1/2 cup juice. Pour in flour mixture, and stir until moistened. Turn into a greased 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour, or until done. Remove loaf from oven, but not from pan.
• Combine 1/2 cup orange juice with 1/4 cup sugar in a small saucepan. Heat and stir to dissolve sugar. Spoon glaze over hot loaf. Let stand in pan for 10 minutes before removing loaf to rack to cool.

ORANGE BREAD FOR THE BREAD MACHINE

Steps:

• add ingredients in order giving and bake on white bread setting.

ORANGE PRUNE BREAD

Steps:

• cover prunes with water and cook until tender.drain and reserve 1/2 cup prune water.
• cool prunes, then dice.
• in a bowl, beat eggs slightly with fork and add oil, sugar, orange peel, extract and reserved prune water and orange juice -- mix well.
• add flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon.add nuts and diced prunes.
• stir only enough to moisten ingredients.
• grease and flour a 9x5" loaf pan.
• pour batter into pan and bake in 350* oven for 55-60 minutes or until it tests done when wooden pick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• cool in pan 10 minutes.
• remove from pan to rack and cool completely before slicing.

CINNAMON SWIRL ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in water.
• In a mixing bowl, combine milk, orange juice, sugar, shortening, peel and salt.
• Add 2 cups flour, yeast mixture and egg; mix well.
• Add enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 8-10 minutes.
• Place in greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-1/4 hours.
• Punch dough down and divide in half. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Roll each half into 15-in. x 7-in. rectangle.
• For filling, combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over rectangle. Sprinkle each with 1 teaspoon water.
• Roll up, jelly-roll style, starting with a short end. Seal edges.
• Place with sealed edge down in two greased 8-in. x 4-in. x 2-in. loaf pans.
• Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown.
• Remove from pan and cool on wire racks.
• Combine glaze ingredients; spread over loaves.

ORANGE JUICE BREAD

Steps:

• Cream the butter with the sugar in a large bowl.
• Beat the eggs and add to the creamed mixture.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
• Mix the orange juice and milk.
• Add the liquids alternately with the sifted dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Stir the lemon and orange zest into the batter.
• Butter a loaf pan 11x4x3 inches.
• Line the bottom of the pan with waxed paper and butter the paper.
• Smooth the batter over the waxed paper and bake in an oven preheated to 325 degrees for 45 minutes, or until the bread springs back lightly when touched in the center.
• Combine the lemon and orange juice with the sugar in a small saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat until the sugar dissolves, stirring constantly.
• Brush the bread with this icing as soon as it is taken from the oven.
• Cool in the pan.