Applesauce Raisin Quick Bread (3 of 100)

INGREDIENTS

2 eggs

½ cup applesauce

1 medium apple McIntosh or Braeburn

¼ cup salted butter

¼ cup  Dakota Clover Honey

2 ½ cups King Arthur unbleached flour

2 ½ teaspoons Clabber Girl baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon King Arthur Vietnamese cinnamon

½ teaspoon nutmeg

1 cup golden raisins

¼ cup walnuts

¼ cup almonds

¼ cup sunflower seeds

DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 350 and grease with Crisco shortening or  spray is fine  1 8x4x4 standard loaf pan. Just make sure all surfaces are covered for this sticky bread. In a bowl combine eggs, butter, honey, chopped apple (skin on) and applesauce. In another bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, sunflower seeds, and nutmeg and whisk until well mixed. Your nuts will have a coarse meal texture consistency to it. Combine wet with dry until moist and then fold in raisins.  The dough should be thick and sticky but not pour-able. Bake for 60 minutes or until your thermometer reaches 180 and comes out clean from the center of the loaf or a cake tester. I’ve learned from King Arthur using the thermometer method is the best way. Cool for 15 minutes and then remove from the pan. Let cool further until it’s room temperature and then put away. This bread is best when allowed to cure or proof for a day. The rest helps bring out the flavor and gives the gluten an opportunity to produce a fine crumb.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), an incredible talent, wrote his Jupiter symphony in 1788, his last and greatest work. It is performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz. The size of the orchestra matches the ensemble Mozart wrote this for making it a superior performance. In the 1700’s a 100 piece symphony was the exception to the rule as opposed to a  standard size of 50 or fewer pieces.

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