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Hook Walnut

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Does anyone have a recipe for Orchard Bread?

A Kansas City bakery makes a wonderful dense and sweet loaf its calls Orchard bread. The ingredients include organic wheat flour, levain, apricots, apples, raisins, walnuts, sea salt, yeast and malt. The loaf gets very dark on the outside, but it does not have a burned taste and the crumb is sturdy, but not too heavy. I've not had any luck finding any recipies like this bread. This is a yeast bread, but my searches for these ingredients have brought up mainly quick bread recipes. The bakery is only open three days a week and is far from my home (it used to work nearby and got hooked), so I'd like to be able to make something close to this loaf myself at home.

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup sugar
1 cup apricots, apples, raisins
3 eggs
2 3/4 cups organic wheat flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cream butter; gradually add sugar, mixing well.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Mix together next 5 ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with the peaches, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
Stir in orange juice concentrate and vanilla.
Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 x 5 x 3-inch loafpan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pan 10 minutes.
Remove from loafpan and cool completely.




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