New Zealand Kiwi Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 X 5 X 3 loaf pan.
• Sift together flour, baking powder baking soda and salt and set aside.
• In large bowl cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time to creamed mixture beating well after each one. Stir in kiwis. Fold in dry ingredients gently, stirring only until batter is completely moistened. Spoon batter into pan and bake for 55-65 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes on wire rack. Remove from pan and continue cooling on rack.

Steps:

• Pare the kiwi and chop enough to make 1 1/2 cups. Place chopped fruit in a 2 quart pan, add sugar and lemon peel. Bring to a boil, stirring until fruit loses some of its color. Allow to cool.
• Beat eggs and oil well. Blend together flour, baking powder and salt.
• Add the baking soda to cooked kiwi mixture. Stir until bubbles form. Add this to the egg mixture and then add flour mixture to it. Stir until dry ingredients are moistened.
• Spoon mixture into a well greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees about 55 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes and turn out onto wire rack.
• Make icing with powdered sugar and lemon juice. Spoon over loaf.

Steps:

• Stir together water, yeast, sugar and 2 tablespoons flour.
• Leave to stand for 15 minutes in a warm position. At the end of 15 minutes this should have about 2 inches of froth on top.
• In a large bowl put in 8-10 cups plain flour.
• Add a pinch of salt and stir.
• Make a well in centre and add the yeast mixture. Gradually stir in flour but don't add too much flour at once - a light hand is the story.
• When the liquid has absorbed as much flour as necessary for it to be kneaded place on a floured board (in my case on1y plain paper) and knead until you can sit the dough in the palm of hand.
• Spread some plain flour on a baking board. Let this stand for 15 minutes -- this is the working time for the yeast and the dough should be nice and spongy and fluffy.
• As soon as I have let the dough stand for 15 minutes I prepare my cooking pot. Sufficient lard, dripping, cooking oil or tallow to cover at least 1/3 of cooking utensil. Heat until blue smoke rises (for us in NZ on electric store this takes 15 minutes).
• Cooking tip: If the fat does not smoke at end of 15 minutes add a wee bit of used fat -- new fat takes forever to reach the required temperature.
• Again! Don't worry overly much about the dough. If it fluffs up nice and spongy and fat is not ready to fry bread, then just knead the dough again and let stand, but perhaps for only 10 minutes this time.
• All things being equal, the dough and the fat should be ready together by this time.
• So press the dough out (add flour if the board is sticky).
• Cut into required (triangles, squares, etc) shaped, pressing to about 1/4 inch thick.
• Fry one side, then brown fry other side and there is your bread.
• Well, hope you enjoy your cooking and eating.
• Signed -- Ngati Tarwhai Cooks.