Description
Grandma-Ag’s Orange Bread – This bread is a fond memory of my childhood, visiting Agnes Frances Primm, my Grandma-Ag. As a young adult, I tried to duplicate the recipe, and unable. I went back and begged her for the secrets of it. When I asked her how long it had taken to develop the tricky recipe, she flattened my ego by telling me she’d gotten it out of a magazine years before! I like to make it for Christmas.
Ingredients
- 1 cup grated orange zest
- ½ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup water
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 3 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 ¼ cups milk
Instructions
- Place the orange zest into a saucepan and add water to cover; bring to a boil and cook 5 minutes. Strain the zest through a mesh strainer and return to the saucepan along with 1/2 cup white sugar and 1/4 cup of water. Return to a boil
- then reduce heat to medium-low; cook
- stirring constantly
- until the water has evaporated. Allow to cool until lukewarm.
- Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
- Whisk the flour
- baking powder
- and salt together in a bowl; set aside. Whisk the egg and 1 cup of sugar in a bowl. Stir in the butter
- milk
- and cooled orange zest until blended; stir in the flour mixture until just moistened then pour into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- 55 to 65 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Total Time: 3 hrs 40 mins
Servings: 6