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[madbaker]

This week's Resolution Recipe: Squash Bread.

2 cups white flour
1 cup wheat flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped nuts
(I added: 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips - I have a bag of them and I prefer semisweet or bitter, so this was a way to use some of them...)
1 cup vegetable oil (I substituted 2 grated apples)
4 eggses
1/2 cup water
2 cups grated squash

Mix the dry ingredients and the nuts (and the chocolate). In a separate bowl, beat together the oil, eggses, water, and squash. Blend the wet ingredients into the dry. Spoon into 2 greased loaf pans and bake at 350 for about an hour. Cool for 10-15 minutes and remove the bread to a rack.

What worked: Good flavor, moist but not too greasy.

What didn't: Could have used more cinnamon.

Will I make it again? Next time I get summer squash.

What I'm reading: Robin Hobb, Dragon Haven

Comments

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

what kind of squash did you use? zuchinni or crookneck or ??

I'm meaning to stock up on frozen loaves of quickbread for future events and this is one that might be a nice change for the unbiquitous banana bread....

thanks!

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

One was a yellow bendy squash, another was a pale green muffin-shaped one, and the third was a green cylinder.
That's about all I know. I don't like squash.

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

LOL!
sounds like you had a crookneck, a pattypan (yum) and a zucchini

:)

[bonacorsi.livejournal.com]

one was a crook neck, one zuchinni and one was a acorn

[aastg.livejournal.com]

What does squash bring to bread that it wouldn't have without it?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Moisture and mouthfeel. Squash, prunes, apples - they all are ways to get the same texture you get using butter or oil, but more healthily.