Quick Easy Bread and Two Special Breads!

So, I recently made a couple delicious breads that I promised I'd post the recipes to. This is for you, Jen! And for everyone else that would love to make a quick loaf of bread every once and awhile. Sweet or savory, this recipe caters to all. However, it is not very exciting, so as the book I found it from says, "use it as a basic guide to create your own special breads." (found in Making Quick Breads by Barbara Karoff)

Your Classic Easy Bread Recipe

Ingredients:

-1 1/2 cups unbleached flour (you have the freedom to use special flours as well, such as amaranth, buckwheat, cornmeal, graham, millet, oat, quinoa, rice, rye, soy, triticale and whole wheat. I will post my two spinoff versions below)

-1/2 tablespoon baking powder

-1/2 teaspoon salt

-1/4 cup softened butter or margarine

-1/2 cup sugar

-1 egg

-3/4 cup milk

Directions:

-In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt.

-In a separate bowl, cream the sugar and butter together.

-Stir the milk and add the liquid mixture quickly to the dry ingredients.

-VERY IMPORTANT: Do not overmix!! Fold slowly with spatula just until all of the ingredients are moistened!

-Spoon mixture into greased loaf pans, no more than 2/3 way full.

-Bake at 350 degrees until a tester comes out clean, start with 20 minutes and go from there.

-Cool in the pans for ten minutes and then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

My Special Bread Substitutions:

Gluten-Free Pumpkin Butter Sweet Bread:

-Substitute flour with brown rice flour

-Substitute coconut milk for whole milk.

- Substitute sugar with raw turbinado sugar

-Substitute butter with homemade or canned pumpkin butter

Gluten-Free Savory Tomato Bread:

-Substitute brown rice flour for flour

-Substitute raw turbinado sugar for white sugar

-Take 1 cup sweet small cherry tomatoes (cut in half), and 1/4 cup coarsely chopped onions, tossed with dill and oregano to taste.

-Right when batter has been mixed and is fully moistened, add tomato onion mix. Save some tomatoes and onions for the top of the loaf.

-Takes 10-15 minutes longer to bake than regular breads because the tomatoes are juicy.

 Check the Helpful Breakmaking Tips post!!

Cheers, foodies!!!