Bread

So a friend of mine at work has a garden and one of the items he is growing is .  He calls me one day to ask if I’m a fan and I say sure, I like .  The next day he gives me the largest I think I have ever seen.  I feel bad that I didn’t take a picture of it before starting to shred it for this recipe, but it was about 10 inches long and 5 inches thick (ok, get all of the dirty thoughts out of your head!).  Having gotten so big, it wasn’t the most flavorful , so it was more suited to making cake… that’s right I said CAKE.  Not sure why it is called bread (only because you make it into a loaf and slice it like bread), but it is made the way cake is made, so I’m calling it as such.

The recipe below is pretty standard bread recipe, so there’s really no source for this.  Just do a google search and you’ll find a dozen recipes that are very similar to this one.

Ingredients

2 eggs, beaten
1 1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups grated fresh
2/3 cup melted unsalted butter
2 teaspoons baking soda
Pinch salt
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Method

  1. Grate the

    Shredded

  2. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
  3. In a large bowl, mix together the sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Mix in the grated and then the melted butter.

    Wet Ingredients

  4. Sprinkle baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour, a third at a time.

    Sifting in flour

  5. Sprinkle in the cinnamon and nutmeg and mix. Fold in the nuts and dried cranberries or raisins if using.
  6. Divide the batter equally between 2 buttered 5 by 9 inch loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour (check for doneness at 50 minutes) or until a wooden pick inserted in to the center comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Turn out onto wire racks to cool thoroughly.

    Two in the oven

    Time to eat!

Honestly, the part that takes the longest is just shredding the , otherwise it is just mixing stuff together and baking it.  I don’t bake too often, but I may start doing more of it…

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