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. Â 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? Â People have that issue sometimes with bananas or zucchinis, why not peaches? Â That is where peach bread can come to the rescue. Â 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. Â It does have a nice, moist flavorful profile that, if slathered with butter, would taste amazing. Â 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
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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