Fresh Strawberry Sweet Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly grease and flour a standard glass (8x5") loaf pan.
• Rinse, core and slice the strawberries; place in a small bowl and sprinkle with 1/2 cup sugar.
• In a large mixing bowl, blend together the remaining sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
• In a medium bowl, beat the eggs until foamy, then add the vanilla and melted butter. Make sure the melted butter isn't too hot-just barely melted.
• Stir in the strawberries. Combine the two mixtures, blending until the dry ingredients are moistened.
• Scrape the batter into the pan and bake for 60-70 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove the pan from the oven and cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes before removing the bread from the pan.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour two 9 x 5-inch loaf pans.
• Slice strawberries and place in medium-sized bowl. Sprinkle lightly with sugar, and set aside while preparing batter.
• Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and baking soda in large bowl; mix well. Blend oil and eggs into strawberries. Add strawberry mixture to flour mixture, blending until dry ingredients are just moistened. Stir in pecans. Divide batter into pans.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes (test each loaf separately). Let cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn loaves out of pans, and allow to cool before slicing.

Steps:

• In a bowl, place the sliced strawberries. Sprinkle the slices with the 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight. This will create a nice syrup with the berries.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Blend together the flour, 1 cup sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine the oil, vanilla, eggs, strawberry slices and its syrup. Dump the strawberry mixture into the flour mixture, and mix just until blended.
• Pour the batter into a greased loaf pan (9 inches x 5 inches) and bake for approximately 50 minutes.
• HINTS: This bread is lovely with cream cheese. Egg substitute (like Egg Beaters) can be used instead of the eggs - just make sure you use the equivalent of 2 eggs. Chef Walter suggests variations of adding 1 1/2 cup chopped pecans or a bit of cinnamon to the batter, if you like.