Cheap & Easy Eats: Leprechaun’s Loaf

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Yield: 1 Round Loaf

Ingredients

4 Cups Flour

4 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1 Teaspoon Salt

1 Cup Sugar

1/4 Pound Butter

2 Tablespoons Caraway Seeds

2 Eggs, beaten

1/2 Cup Milk

1 Cup Light Cream

1 Cup Light Raisins

Mix the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Cut in the butter with a knife. Add caraway seeds, beaten eggs, milk, cream and raisins. Mix well. Spoon into a well-greased iron skillet and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool on a rack before slicing.

Serve this sweet, chewy bread for breakfast with juice and jam, or for lunch as an accompaniment to a hearty bowl of soup.

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This recipe—a favorite of a MAKING BREAD reader—was adapted from a recipe in  “The Fine Arts Cookbook," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,  Massachusetts. c1970.

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