Homemade Mennonite Peach Bread, my parents made this loaf
By Kevin Williams
Honestly, this didn't sound all that appealing to me. I LOVE peaches, but if I want a peach, I want to enjoy it's sweet, ripe juiciness in all its glory. Not bake it into a bread. But, still, what if you end up with a bunch of peaches somehow and you can't possibly eat them all? People have that issue sometimes with bananas or zucchinis, why not peaches? That is where peach bread can come to the rescue. The bread tastes like...well, like a zucchini or a pumpkin bread...a nice, moist bread, but like those other examples you can't really taste its namesake that much....It's not like this bread has a peachy taste. It does have a nice, moist flavorful profile that, if slathered with butter, would taste amazing. So if you find yourself with excess peaches (my parents used 7 peaches when they made two loaves, one which is pictured here), this easy bread recipe is a good bet.
- 1½ cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 2¼ cups pureed peaches
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- In a large mixing bowl, cream sugar and shortening until light.
- Add eggs and beat well.
- Add peach puree and dry ingredients.
- Blend well.
- Stir in vanilla and chopped pecans and until blended.
- Pour into two greased and floured 9x5-inch loaf pans.
- Bake at 325° for 55 minutes to 1 hour, or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
- Let bread cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan. '
- Cool completely on wire racks
Mary Laisure
I made the peach bread, it was moist, but all I could taste was the cinnamon and vanilla and couldn't taste the peaches. I used peaches which were supposedly southern that I bought at the grocery store which had to sit on the counter to ripen as they were pretty hard when I bought them.
Kevin
Hi, Mary - Yeah, I don't disagree...a lot of the fruit breads - banana bread, apple bread, etc - the fruit is hard to taste...my parents mixed in more chunks of peaches and that helped