Fruit Breads

BANANA LOAF

% cup shortening 2 cups sifted flour

1 cup sugar 2 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs 1 cup nuts

1 cup mashed bananas z tsp. salt

1 tsp. lemon juice

Add lemon juice to bananas and mix in the usual manner.
Bake 14 hours at 375°.
Helena Friesen, Ft. Macleod.

FRUIT BREAD

Sift together: 2 cups flour

# cup sugar

4 tsp. salt

28 tsp. baking powder
Add: 1 egg unbeaten
1 cup milk or 2 tbsp. melted shortening
# cup candied fruit, green or red cherries
% cup nuts

Bake 50 minutes in loaf pan.
Mrs. A. Field, Grande Prairie.
LEMON LOAF

1 cup sugar cup chopped nuts and a

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% cup butter or lard few sliced cherries
Cream. together. cup milk
2 eggs 13 cup bread flour
grated rind of 1 lemon 1 tsp. baking powder sifted
Beat together well. with flour

Bake in moderate oven 1 hour. Pour over the top, while still hot, juice
of 1 lemon mixed with 4% cup white sugar.

Florence Downing, Ft. Macleod.

NUT BREAD

2 cups flour 1 cup chopped walnuts
~ cup sugar 2 eggs

3 tbsp. shortening 1 cup milk

1 tbsp. baking powder 1 tsp. vanilla

4 tsp. salt

Baking time 50 to 55 minutes — 350° heat. Cool 10 minutes.
Mrs. A. Padberg, Oyen.

DATE LOAF
4 lb. dates 1% cups flour
1 tsp. soda 1 cup nuts
3° tbsp. shortening 1 cup boiling water
= cup sugar 1 tsp. baking powder
z tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla

Mix dates, soda, shortening, sugar, nuts in boiling water. Add sifted flour
and baking powder. Bake 1 hour at 350°.
Ethel V. Kelts, Consort.

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