51 Fresh Fruit Quick Breads (In the Pantry Quick Breads) [Kindle Edition]

Joyce Middleton (Author)

Book Description

Ranked #1 Best Selling in Baking
Ranked #1 Best Selling in Bread

Volume 1 In the Pantry Quick Breads series

Enjoy 51 recipes using seasonal fruit; you're never without a fruit recipe all year long!

Seasonal fruit makes delicious and moist quick bread. If you would enjoy baking with fresh fruit and staples you already have in your pantry, then you'll certainly enjoy this recipe book. Too often we end up with extra fruit from our trees in the backyard or fresh fruit we purchased, but it's just sitting in the bowl. Now you have a way to use it and avoid the waste.



Not only are quick breads yummy, you can save money by doing your own baking. How much is a fabulous banana bread or blueberry bread at your local market or bakery? You can create the same delicious bread in your home; not to mention how wonderful your house will smell during and after baking your quick bread.

Take one of these quick bread recipes and convert it to muffins using the information included, if that's what you prefer. Quick bread recipes are equally good served warm, cold or even toasted for breakfast. Decorate the top of your loaf or muffins; serve with ice cream or whipping cream; enjoy with plain or flavored butter. In other words, you can't go wrong with the right quick bread recipes! You could have your next masterpiece in the oven in 15 minutes, ready to take out of the oven in the next hour!

"... Every year I end up with way too many mangoes so I was pleasantly surprised to find a quick bread that included mango. I love fruit bread, but avoid buying it because it is just not in my budget. Now I'm thrilled that I can make my own, quickly and cheaply." ~ Tilly

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"... I found lots and lots to love in these very well put together pages."
"... even with all the cookbooks I have, found some fantastic recipe ideas for quick breads (also called Tea Breads) I haven't seen before." ~ Grandma

"This book is extra special because of Its organization. It is easy to just find the fruit you have available and turn it into a wonderful treat." ~ Maggie

"These recipes are easy to follow and with clear instructions. A cookbook well worth adding to your collection!" ~ Marg

"... Lots of great tips here that will help other bakers."  ~ Rhonda

From the Author

Did you know baking quick breads is much easier than baking cakes?  If you're just starting to bake, you're in for a treat!  That's because I truly believe that baking starts with using up what's in your pantry.  In the winter, we end up with too many apples and oranges.  In the summer, we have an abundance of peaches, bananas and sometimes even blueberries. 

Just go to the chapter of the fruit you have on-hand and you're ready to start baking a quick bread.  Most of these recipes just need all the ingredients to be stirred together, using one bowl.  It's pretty hard to make a bad quick bread loaf, especially when you follow my tips.  You can expect to produce a sweet and moist cake-like bread that you can serve as it is or dress it up for a fancy dessert.

I hope you enjoy these favorite recipes as much as I do!

~ Joyce

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Product Details

• File Size: 311 KB
• Print Length: 90 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: GRM Digital Publishing; 2 edition (January 17, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006Z0MS1I
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,797 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Bread
  • #11 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Bread

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly Done! February 22, 2012

By Grandma TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

One of my favorite foods as a child was a date nut bread that came in a can. My mother would slice the bread very thinly, then put slices together with cream cheese to make little round sandwiches. Nothing was better than that, except perhaps the Cranberry Bread the lady across the street used to bring me every time she went for a visit to her sister's. I haven't found that Date Nut Bread in a can in many a year, but the Cranberry Bread became a part of my life. Every fall I stash bag after bag of cranberries in the freezer, just to make Cranberry Bread. My recipe, BTW, the same one that lady across the street passed to me more than fifty years ago, is nearly identical to the Cranberry Nut Bread recipe author Joyce Middleton gives in Fresh Fruit Quick Breads (In the Pantry Quick Breads).

I found lots and lots to love in these very well put together pages. The book is superbly laid out. Divided up by sections according to kind of fruit, the interactive Table of Contents will allow you to quickly and easily find exactly what you are looking for. Middleton's tips are right on the money. It is very easy to see that she is an experienced baker. At the request of a friend who also purchased this book, I've gone over every recipe with a fine toothed comb and did not find a single glaring error or omission (the Apricot Bread uses a much larger quantity of fruit in place of the oil that would ordinarily make up most of the liquid) and even with all the cookbooks I have, found some fantastic recipe ideas for quick breads (also called Tea Breads) I haven't seen before.

There are a couple of small things I could mention. Because of the relatively high sugar content quick breads have a tendency to darken on the bottom before the center is cooked through. I've always found that lining the pan with waxed paper or parchment goes a long ways towards preventing that while making it easier to get the bread out of the pans.

I do like to make my tea breads in smaller than usual loaves. USA Pans 5-1/2 by 3-Inch Strapped Mini Loaf Pan, Set of 4 is one of my most prized pieces of kitchen equipment. One recipe for a 9" X 5" loaf will just about fill the sections of this pan once. That makes it easy for me to freeze part of a loaf or give some away as a gift.

I did notice that Joyce sometimes calls for things like a "half stick" of butter. People outside of the US and Canada do not buy butter in sticks like we do. If you are one of those, a stick of butter weighs four ounces. A couple of recipes called for margarine. Feel free to substitute butter for that. And while you are at it, if you are sensitive to canola oil as we are in my family or just don't have any on hand, you can use any mild oil. Most of these recipes likely originally called for just "oil" meaning something like Wesson oil. (Don't tell anyone, but more than once the oil that has been handy in my kitchen has been plain old olive oil - just the regular, not the highly flavored virgin oil you would use for a salad dressing. Nobody ever noticed a thing.)

Kudos to Joyce on a job extremely well done! This is a book you will enjoy using for years to come.

Highly recommended.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Keeper - A Great Little Cookbook January 22, 2012

By Marg Ruttan

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

If you love quick breads then this cookbook is a must have. There are numerous recipes for great quick breads, but my favorite one is the Blueberry Lemon quick bread. I have a very similar recipe and it is absolutely delicious. Try it, you'll love it!

These recipes are easy to follow and with clear instructions. A cookbook well worth adding to your collection!

Marg Ruttan
International Best Selling Author

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars just too yummy! April 12, 2012

By Marilyn Noah

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I love breads of all kinds, but don't really have the patience for yeast breads. I made the blueberry and the date breads the day I got this book. Both were great and have kept well in the fridge. My husband is not a big sweet eater but liked both of these. I did add some Gran Gala to the OJ sauce for the date bread :). Next time will add lemon or orange zest to the blueberry batter. This week making the strawberry bread as the Poteet Strawberry Festival is this weekend so fresh "home "grown berries are available.
I did have all the ingredients for these two,but need to add a few staples to my pantry for others. You won't be disappointed in this book.

More About the Author

Thanks for visiting my author page. Since adding my first Kindle book, I was completely surprised and pleased that it surged up the bestseller list. It's a little book of love with my favorite fresh fruit quick bread recipes. I have to say thank you to everyone who took the time to leave a review.

Have you ever tried putting together all the recipes you've collected over the years? It's not easy, especially getting them formatted for publication. But I'm a serious baker - have been since childhood, so I have a lot to organize and share.

I grew up in the 50s and 60s in southern California. Since I was in grade school, I was in the kitchen cooking and baking to help my Mother. And then I got really serious about cooking after reading Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" Volumes 1 and 2. Later I found the need to modify my cooking while raising a family. After all, my food budget didn't have room for all the "gourmet" items I would need to buy for all the recipes I wanted to make.

That's when I started cooking and baking from my pantry. Of course, I had to stock the pantry with the items I used most often. I also developed a routine for making sure I always had fresh meals to serve. My "gourmet" cooking was relegated to entertaining.

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