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Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits

I am of the strongest opinion that one can never have such a thing as too many biscuit recipes, and by biscuit I am talking North American Biscuits, not English Biscuits, which are cookies and something completely different.

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits are fabulously tasty, light, flakey, peppery, stogged with rich strong cheddar and are beautiful served along side of savoury things like soups, stews, salads, etc. 

I will go out on a limb here and tell you they are also kinda nice spread with butter and honey, only because I have done that and they were delicious, but then again, taste is a very individual thing is it not?


Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits

I had this huge discussion on my English Kitchen Facebook stage the other day with someone who was quite irate that in an English Kitchen I would be calling Scones Biscuits.  I was calling what I had made Biscuits (The Yogurt ones) because they were Biscuits, NOT Scones!

I, personally, know the difference between a Biscuit and a Scone.  I am well versed in the differences between the two.   I am a trained Chef good golly cheese whiz.  I have had experience living and cooking on both sides of the pond.

Today I will endeavour to enlighten you with what those differences are.  What you do with this knowledge is up to you. 😊 I know, I am preaching to the choir here, but there may be some who don't know and this is for them.

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 

When it comes to mixing biscuits and scones, the methods used are pretty much indistinguishable. Both require flour and some leavening usually in the way of baking powder.

Biscuits sometimes also have baking soda in them, especially if they are using buttermilk (such as these tasty ones I am sharing with you today.)  

If you are using something acidic like buttermilk or sour cream, yogurt, etc. you need a bit of soda. The soda reacts with the acid in the liquid to give you plenty of lift.

Both use some sort of fat which helps to create air pockets in them when they are baking which leads to flakiness. 

With biscuits this will be vegetable shortening, lard, and sometimes butter or a combination of those things.  

With scones, it is always butter, and there is always a lot more of it than you would find being used in a biscuit batter.

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits

Biscuits for the most part contain no sugar, although you will find the rare recipe which will include at least some. My mother-in-laws recipe has a TBS of sugar in it. 

Generally speaking a scone recipe will have some sugar in it, maybe even copious amounts.

Biscuits are usually brushed with butter or milk.  Scones usually have an egg wash.  Scones, generally speaking, will also have he addition of eggs in the liquid used. (Not always however.) Are you confused yet?


Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 
Biscuits are soft and light and flakey in texture and most often will be savoury rather than  sweet. Meant to be eaten  along with soups, or stews, or salads, or filled with things like ham and eggs. Breakfast biscuits are quite popular.  

You will find them filled with bacon, ham or sausage and eggs and cheese at mny fast food places in North America.

Quite often you will see them split and served with sausage gravy ladled over top or creamed fish or chicken.  

There is one exception to this rule and that is in the case of fruit shortcakes, whereupon they will be split and filled with mashed fruit of some kind and icecream or whipped cream.

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 

Scones are a bit more crumbly wih a much shorter texture than Biscuits and a lot sweeter. More often than not, they are  served cold and meant to be spread with  butter, jam, conserves, fruit and cream and enjoyed with copious amounts of hot tea. 

Quite often you will find that they contain fruit, either dried or fresh.  And even so they will still be served cold with jam and cream.  As a rule scones are never served hot or even warm.


Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 

Biscuits can have mix-ins, such as these ones today, but generally speaking the mix ins will be of the savoury variety.  I have never seen a Biscuit with anything sweet added such as dried fruit or even fresh fruit. 

Mix-ins are usually things like bacon, or minced ham, cheese, onions, chives, etc. pretty much always savoury, although there may be some exceptions to the rule I haven't come across! 


Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 

There are some really strong basic differences between the two as well as a lot of similarities, specifically the main one being in how they are put together/mixed. But even that is not 100% standard some of the time.

Any how, I just wanted to clear the air a bit as to some of the differences between the two things.  This recipe I am sharing with you today is for BISCUITS!  Yay!!

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 

And what wonderful biscuits they are.  They are nice and light and flaky and filled with all sorts of lovely savoury moreish bits. 

Crisp smoky bacon, sharp cheddar cheese, herby fresh chives and plenty of garlic and black pepper.  They are moist and light from the use of buttermilk.

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 

Instead of the usual shortening or lard, butter is grated into them as the fat.  You will want to freeze it as it is really important that you keep the butter as cold as possible.

Usually fat will be cut into biscuits using a pastry blender or two round bladed knives (as opposed to being rubbed in with a scone.) Today it is grated in and then just stirred in with a knife.

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 

All your flour and savoury bits are stirred together and then the butter is dropped in and then you stir in buttermilk.  If you don't have buttermilk, don't worry you can make the equivalent using lemon juice with  full fat milk added to the same amount needed as buttermilk. 

If you mix the two together, you just need to let it sit for about five minutes so that the milk will clabber.  I usually end up having to do this as I have had a very difficult time getting buttermilk lately.



Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits 

Just look at how nice and flaky those biscuits are and how filled with lovely tasty bits.  That cheese, that bacon, the chives.  So yummy! 

They are delicious split and spread with cold butter.  I enjoyed them with a cup of hot soup for a delicious lunch.

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits  

Oh and in all of my talking about the differences between scones and biscuits I forgot to tell you that this was another small batch recipe. 

You could double it of course if you wished and they will absolutely freeze beautifully if tightly wrapped, for up to three months.  Simply thaw in a microwave on high for about 30 seconds.  Enjoy!

Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits

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Cheddar, Bacon & Chive Biscuits
Yield: 8 Biscuits
Author: Marie Rayner
prep time: 15 Mcook time: 15 Mtotal time: 30 M
This is a small batch recipe.  These biscuits are incredibly flaky, tall and nice and buttery.  Filled with lots of sharp cheddar, crisp bacon bits and fresh chives they make an excellent addition to the lunch or supper table!

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups (280g) plain flour
  • 2 tsp  baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp coarse black pepper
  • 1 tsp garlic powder (NOT garlic salt)
  • 3 slices of crisp cooked bacon, crumbled into bits
  • 60g sharp cheddar cheese grated
  • 1 TBS finely chopped chives.
  • 3 ounces (85g) frozen butter (6 TBS)
  • 7 fluid ounces  (190ml)of buttermilk

Instructions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 225*C/425*F/gas mark 7.  Line a baking tray with some baking paper and set aside.
  2. Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda into a bowl.  Stir in the cheese, chopped chives, bacon, pepper, garlic powder, and salt.
  3. Using the largest holes on a box grater, quickly grate  the butter over top and mix in using a round bladed knife. Stir all together.  Add the buttermilk and mix together. The dough will be somewhat sticky. Don't worry about that.
  4. Tip the dough out onto a floured board and knead lightly 3 or 4 times to bring it together.  Pat out to a 1 1/2 inch thick round.
  5. Using a 2 1/2 to 3- inch sharp round cutter, stamp out rounds, using a straight up and down motion. Do not twist the cutter.
  6. Place spaced apart on the baking sheet.
  7. Bake for about 15 minutes until risen and golden brown. Serve warm with plenty of butter for spreading. Delicious!
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Pancake Soup

Monday, 31 August 2020

Pancake Soup

Back in the 1980's I had a great friend who lived right next door to me.  We lived in a row of town houses and had similarly aged children.  Our husbands were both in the airforce. Her name was Mabel and I have to confess I learned a lot about cooking from her.

She was one of my early inspirations.  She had three children and I had four.  Our days were busy and our hands were full, but every night after supper we would sit together on our shared door step, have a coffee together and talk about our days which had just passed.

Pancake Soup

We both enjoyed cooking and food and started a supper club between the two of us. One month it would be her turn to host and the next it would be mine. 

A three course dinner for four and sometimes we had themes. One month it might be Italian and another Greek.

She did a beautiful German meal for us once that I still remember to this day. They had lived in Germany just prior to moving to Nova Scotia where we were all living at the time and she really did that country proud with her meal.

You know something is good if 35 years later you are still thinking about it!

Pancake Soup

I have always held a special fondness in my heart for German food.  I lived there when I was a child from the time I was an infant until just before I started school. My sister was actually born there.

My husband and I have also travelled there several times on holidays.  It is a clean, clean country and the people are very friendly and kind. 

The food is amazing. There is no other word for it. I remember having a hot chocolate on one of our first holidays there.  I am sure there was at least a six inch tower of  whipped cream dancing on the top of it!

Pancake Soup 
It was delicious. Who can visit Germany without enjoying a slice of their infamous Black Forest Cake.   It is so delicious. 

We have eaten grilled Bratwurst in buns with mustard on the edge of Lake Titisee. Nothing tasted finer.

One day we enjoyed plate sized schnitzels that would make your mother weep, sides hanging over platters adorned with crisp fresh chips and a beautiful salad on the side.  

Yes, German food is delicious.  Its not overly fancy, but it is incredibly fresh and extremely well done.  They have a great pride in what they present to you at the table, and it shows.

Pancake Soup 

My mother often told us the story about how she arrived in Germany with me, only about 9 months old, on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1956.  She was very tired after having travelled there from Canada on her own to meet my father who was already there.  The airline had lost her luggage and so there we were in a foreign country, where she did not know the language or the people  . . .  and all we had were the clothes which we were wearing.

My father had managed to rent a small set of rooms for us over a Gasthaus, which would be our home until we were able to get more permanent accomodations on the base.  She was in tears, needless to say, afraid and feeling quite lonely being so far away from her family and friends on what is traditionally very much a family occasion.  And she was exhausted.

Pancake Soup 
The family that owned the Gasthaus were celebrating their Christmas downstairs, but the wife/mother took the time to cook a meal for my mother and father, a chicken dinner and then she took charge of me. 

She tore up a sheet to use as diapers,  got me a bottle, giving my teary and bleary eyed mother some rest she so badly needed. My mother never forgot this simple kindness.

Kind, kind people, and this was not long after the War had ended, only 10 years. They were still very much recovering.  

The recipe I am sharing today for Pancake Soup is a German Recipe and it is delicious in its simplicity. It is also known as Crepe Soup or Fladlesuppe.  

In Swabia where it comes from, pancakes are known as Fladle. The recipe has been adapted from a cookery book I have entitled, Grandma's German Cookbook by Birgit Hamm and Linn Schmidt.


To make this soup you must first make a pancake batter.  European pancakes are not like North American Pancakes.  They are thin and very crepe-like.   These are rolled up tightly and then cut into small rounds.

Put into shallow bowls they are simply covered in a good strong broth. You can use Chicken, or beef or vegetable.  The recipe was originally designed to use up leftover broth from the day before.

Pancake Soup 
Today I have used chicken stock which I buy in little gel-capsules. It has a lovely flavour that we both enjoy and I use it a lot. Generally speaking I always have chicken, beef or vegetable pots gel pots in my larder.  Very handy to have.

This soup is incredibly delicious in its simplicity.  A good stock and rolled up sliced pancakes that act almost like hearty little noodles.  Scattered with some finely snipped chives it makes a wonderful light lunch or first course.

Pancake Soup 
You could also garnish it with some wild garlic scapes, thinly sliced (in season) or chopped parsley. I think as well chopped fresh thyme would also be very nice.

I can remember being on holiday in France and walking through some fields on a 13km hike we went on one day.  Every step we too smelled like garlic.  There was wild garlic everywhere. Oh I do so love Europe and I really hope that I will get a chance to travel there again on holiday.

Pancake Soup

 I really hope that you will be inspired to try this soup.  Don't let its simplicity or simple list of ingredients put you off. It is a true gem of a recipe and a wonderful testimony to a people who know how to make the most out of what they have been given.

Its comforting and delicious and a true pleasure to eat.  I think also that children would really enjoy this simple soup.  Pancake Soup, its a good thing, not to coin Martha Stewart or anything.  Make it. You will love it.

Pancake Soup

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Pancake Soup
Yield: 4
Author: Marie Rayner
prep time: 15 Mcook time: 15 Mtotal time: 30 M
This is also known as Crepe Soup or Fladlesuppe. German in origin it was developed to be able to use up leftover sock. Rolled up pancakes, sliced into coins act as noodles. Its quite simple but extremely delicious!

Ingredients:

For the pancakes:
  • 2/3 cup of plain flour (100g)
  • 2 large free range eggs
  • 1 1/3 cup whole milk (300ml)
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
You will also need:
  • butter for greasing the pan
  • 1 bunch chives, finely snipped
  • 4 cups (960ml) hot chicken, beef or vegetable stock
  • black pepper to taste

Instructions:

  1. Begin by making the pancakes.  Measure the flour into a bowl along with the salt and nutmeg.  Beat in the milk and the eggs until you have a smooth, lump-free batter. Let stand for 15 minutes.
  2. Heat a skillet (I found a six inch skillet worked best for me.) Butter with a tiny bit of butter. Using a soup ladle, pour in just enough batter to cover the bottom of the pan in a thin layer. Cook until beginning to brown, flip over and cook for a further 30 seconds.  Remove to a plate and repeat until you have used all the batter up.  Keep warm.
  3. Roll the pancakes up tightly and slice crosswise into thin rounds. 
  4. Evenly divide the warm pancakes between four shallow heated soup or pasta bowls.  Divide the hot stock between the bowls. Sprinkle with pepper and chopped chives.  Serve immediately.
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Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce

Sunday, 30 August 2020

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce

At the weekend I like to pull out the stops a bit and make my husband a delicious dessert.  We only ever very rarely eat dessert the rest of the week.  If we do have anything at all it will be pots of yogurt or once in a blue moon a sneaky mini-magnum bar or a two finger kitkat.

This weekend I had some stale brioche bread that I wanted to use up and so I decided to make a small batch bread pudding, perfectly sized just for two.  Sweet Almond Bread Pudding.  And I made a sauce to serve with it as well, a blackberry sauce.  Two generous servings of decadent deliciousness.

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 
 You can use any stale brioche that you might have in the house.  I had a stale poppyseed swirled brioche that I had gotten with my grocery order. It was so yummy, but inevitably we did not get it all used up. 

It was the perfect bread to use in this pudding.  Just rich enough. Not too sweet.  And the poppyseed swirl worked well with the other flavours.

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 
You could use any stale bread really.  Stale croissants.  Stale biscuits.  Stale hot dog buns.  Stale baguettes.  All bread once it is stale is quite suitable for using in a bread pudding. 

The reason we use stale bread is because it will soak up the egg custard mixure more readily.  Fresh soft bread just doesn't have the ability to absorb liquids in quite the same way and you will have a soggy finish. Not good.

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 
 As it is you will need to dry/toast the bread in a slow oven for ten minutes to dry it out even more. You don't want it crisp, but you do want it quite dry. 

Dry enough to be able to absorb all of that rich custard and trust me, this is one mega-rich custard, but not at all in a bad way . . .  but in a very good way indeed!  It is simply sugar, egg yolks and heavy/double cream!

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 

Rich and decadent and flavoured with both pure vanilla and almond extracts. Simple flavours, with astonishing results.  I could eat that custard with a spoon.

The cream is heated first with half of the sugar.  You don't want it to boil. You just heat it until it begins to steam and bubbles show up all around the edges. Boiling might curdle it.  

Let cool just a bit and then whisk it into two large free range egg yolks which you have beaten together with the remaining sugar and the flavourings.

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 

You have to do this a little bit at a time or else you will cook the eggs, which is something you really don't want to do.  I start by drizzling it in just a tiny bit at a time until I have about half the cream whisked in.

At that point it is safe to whisk in the remainder of the cream/sugar mixture.  That completes the custard. Oh but it does smell delicious and we are really only just beginning!!

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce

You want to divide your dry bread cubes between two well buttered ramekins. I used two Le Creuset ramekins that I got a few years back.  Each one holds a generous cup full of liquid.

The custard is then divided between the two ramekins. You must press the bread down into the custard until it is covered, then you play a bit of a waiting game while the bread absorbs that rich custard.


Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 

The puddings are  baked in a Bain Marie, which is a fancy name for a water bath. You put them into a baking dish and then fill it halfway full with boiling water.  This helps to keep the puddings moist and helps them to bake properly without drying out too much. You want them a bit jiggly.

I do have to laugh when I think back to when I first started cooking.  I have always had a great interest in food and cooking and recipes.  I was watching cooking shows when I was still a teenager and at school.

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 
My mother went back to work when my brother started school.  She had housekeepers for about a year, but they didn't really work out.  After that I was old enough that I became the one in charge of the house while my parents were both at work. I was twelve. 

I had some household chores to do, my younger siblings to watch and supper to get started. Mostly I was just reheating what my mother had already prepared but every once in a while I got to actually cook. Especially once I had started Home Economics classes at school and knew a little bit about what I was doing. 

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce

I slowly through the years gained skills and knowlege.  Some gleaned from friends and much from watching television and reading magazines.  I thought I was quite capable back then, and perhaps I was to a degree, but I would have had a puzzled look on my face had anyone asked me what a Bain Marie was! (Despite how much I thought I knew!) 

It was really not much at all in comparison to what I know now, and most of that I learnt by doing and growing and cooking.  Raising a large family taught me much, and of course I eventually went to Culinary College which taught me more.

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 
In retrospect I should have gone to Culinary School out of high school instead of secretarial. My cooking skills have served me very well through the years, much more than my secretarial skills have done, with the exception of typing.

But back to the pudding. They are done when they are nicely puffed and just a bit jiggly. They will be golden brown on top, the nuts having toasted and the sugar nicely glazing the tops.


Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce

While they are baking you can make your blackberry sauce. If you haven't got blackberries, feel free to substitute raspberries in their place.  They will be just as delicious.  Another name for the sauce is a berry coulis.

Its lovely, not too sweet, but slightly tart and coloured like a jewel.  I tried to be a bit fancy and spread some beneath the puddings in a pattern before I set the puddings on top.  That only lasted until I popped the puddings onto the pattern. Oh well . . . best laid plans and all that.

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce 
These puddings are best served warm with the cold blackberry sauce. You can make the puddings ahead of time, keeping them wrapped tightly for up to three days in the refrigerator. (This makes them perfect for celebratory dinners!)

Gently reheat to warm. (I would steam them for a few minutes in top of a double boiler.)  Serve warm with this fabulous blackberry coulis, these are puddings worth more than an ounce of applause!

Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce

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Sweet Almond Bread Pudding with Blackberry Sauce
Yield: 2
Author: Marie Rayner
prep time: 15 Mcook time: 1 hourtotal time: 1 H & 15 M
Simple to make and yet outrageously delicious!

Ingredients:

For the pudding:
  • 4 ounces of stale Brioche, cut into 1 inch pieces (about 1 heaped cup)
  • 1 cup (240ml) heavy cream
  • 6 TBS granulated sugar
  • 2 large free range egg yolks
  • 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp almond extract
To top pudding:
  • 2 TBS flaked almonds
  • 1 tsp finely granulated sugar
For the blackberry sauce:
  • 2 cups (170g) of blackberries, fresh or frozen
  • 1/3 cup (65g) sugar
  • 1 TBS fresh lemon juice

Instructions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 160*C/325*F/ gas mark 3.  Butter two (8 ounce)  glass baking ramekins really well. Set aside.
  2. Cut the bread into 1 inch cubes. Place onto a baking sheet and toast in the oven for 10 minutes. Remove.
  3. Heat the cream with half of the sugar just until bubbles appear around the edges and it is steaming.  Do not allow to boil.  Keep warm.
  4. Whisk the egg yolks with the remaining sugar and extracts until smooth.  Slowly whisk in the warm cream mixture a little bit at a time to temper the eggs. Once the eggs have heated you can just whisk in the remainder of the cream.
  5. Divide the bread cubes between both ramekins. Strain half of the custard over each ramekin and lightly press down so that the bread is soaking. Leave to soak for 20 minutes.
  6. At the end of that time put the ramekins into a baking dish with sides, large enough to hold both of them. Sprinkle the top of each with 1 TBS of flaked almonds and half the sugar.
  7. Fill the baking dish to halfway up the sides of the ramekins with boiling water.
  8. Place into the oven and bake for one hour, or until the custard is set.
  9. While the puddings are baking make the sauce. Put the blackberries into a saucepan with the sugar and lemon juice. Bring to a simmer. Leave to simmer for 2 minutes.  Blitz until smooth with an immersion blender. (or a regular blender)  Strain through a sieve.
  10. Unmold the warm puddings onto a dessert plate and drizzle some of the sauce over top. Refrigerate any leftovers.
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Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf

Saturday, 29 August 2020

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf 

Its that time of year again. If you are a vegetable gardener you will know exactly what I mean. Its zucchini glut season!  That time of year when you have zucchini, or courgettes are they are known here in the UK, coming out your ears! 

That time of the year when you think if you see just one more zucchini you are going to scream, and then . . .  you remember things like this delicious Pineapple Zucchini Loaf and all of a sudden everything is alright in your world again.

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf

I think zucchini has to be one of the most prolific of garden vegetables. You think you have picked it all and then it surprises you  with a gargantuan one, the size of a small dog that's been hiding underneat all of the leaf cover.

You find yourself wondering how on earth you could have missed such a thing, but there it is. Its huge and you did actually miss finding it sooner.

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf

I'm not sure about you, but personally I like to pick my zucchini and use it when it is about the size of a large banana.  Any larger than that and I find it is pretty tasteless. It does work very well however in bakes such as this delicious loaf.

I usually cut it in half, discard all of the seeds and then grate the rest.  It actually freezes very well. You can pack it into zip lock freezer baggies, in 2 cup measures, ready to use all the winter through.

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf

Zucchini makes a superior quick bread. It always comes out moist and flecked with green.  This particular recipe which contains crushed pineapple is a particular favourite of mine.

Its light and takes well to the warm baking spices and toasted nuts. I have used pecans today, but walnuts also work very well.  I always toast my nuts for baking. Toasting makes them taste even nuttier!

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf 
Today I used smaller zucchini, about the size of a large banana. Their cylindrical shape of this summer vegetable makes it very easy to hold and to grate.

I use the large holes on my box grater. If you use anything smaller, it will turn to mush. I also prefer the texture of hand grated over machine grated.

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf 

Zucchini has a very high water content, so take note. No liquid is needed in this recipe, other than the oil. I have not left anything out.  There is no milk or yogurt or any other liquid.

Just the zucchini and the crushed pineapple.  I do drain the pineapple well, but I leave the zucchini as is. There is no need to squeeze the liquid out of it.  Don't you just love those bright green flecks?  I do. Its almost Christmas-like!

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf 
I baked this in two metal loaf tins, one was slightly larger than the other, but both were basically 9 by 5 inches in size.  You can use pyrex loaf pans if you want, but if you do, you will want to reduce the oven temperature to 160*C/325*F/ gas mark 3. 

I just use my shiny silver loaf tins. Aluminium foil ones are also nice. You know, the disposable ones? You can use them over and over a few times, simply placing them in the dishwasher on the top rack to clean, before you need to get rid of them.

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf 

Baking them in aluminium foil also makes them very handy for gifting. Our next door neighbour has been so kind to us throughout this Pandemic. Always picking us up bread and milk without us even having to ask. 

She was very pleased to be gifted with one of these loaves.  Zucchini Loaf is something new to the British.  Its not something they ever think to do with this vegetable.

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf

In fact they keep calling it marrow, but in reality a marrow is a completely different vegetable.  They love to stuff their marrows over here. 

Stuffed marrow is not something I have ever taken a liking to, although I do like stuffed zucchini. I like mine stuffed with vegetables, cheese and crumbs however, not meat.

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf 
You can also freeze this easy loaf. Just make sure you wrap it up really well in some cling film. I tend to double wrap it and then wrap it again in some aluminium foil.  Make sure you add a label so that you know what it is. 

Yes, I am one of those people who freezes things and then can't figure out what the heck it is when I go to thaw it out. I have been surprised many times over. Now I label things. You should too. You can keep it frozen for about 3 months or a bit longer.


Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf
Pineapple and Zucchini Loaf is one of those quick breads that begs to be eaten, still warm from the oven with a hot cuppa of whatever hot drink you enjoy and spread with cold butter.

Oh it is so good with that cold butter melting down into it.  Spicy, sweet, buttery and nutty. What more could a person ask for???

Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf

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Pineapple & Zucchini Loaf
Yield: Makes 2 (9 X 5-inch) Loaves
Author: Marie Rayner
prep time: 15 Mcook time: 1 hourtotal time: 1 H & 15 M
This is a superior Quick Bread.  Its incredibly moist and delicious and flecked with green and bits of pineapple. Make one loaf to keep and one to give away or freeze.

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups all purpose flour (420g plain)
  • 1 cup toasted chopped pecans (120g)
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground allspice
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 large free range eggs
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil (180ml)
  • 1 cup firmly packed soft light brown sugar (200g)
  • 1 cup granulated sugar (190g)
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 cups grated zucchini (430g, about 2 medium courgettes)
  • 1 (8 1/2 oz) can of drained crushed pineapple (240g)

Instructions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180*C/350*F/ gas mark 4.  Butter two 9 by 5 inch loaf tins and line with paper, leaving an overhang to help easily lift it out.
  2. Whisk together the eggs, both sugars, oil and vanilla until thick and fuffy using an electric mixer. Fold in the grated zucchini and well drained pineapple
  3. Sift together the flour, soda, baking powder, cinnamon and allspice. Stir in the salt.
  4. Fold into the wet mixture, along with the toasted pecans, making three additions. You should have a moistened batter which is evenly combined with no patches of dry flour.
  5. Divide the batter equally amongst the two baking tins.
  6. Bake in the preheated oven for 55 to 60 minutes until golden brown and the edges have started to pull away slightly from the tins. A toothpick inserted in the centre should also come out clean.
  7. Let rest in the pan for 5 minutes before lifting out to a wire rack to cool, right sides up. Serve in thick slices or store at room temperature, wrapped tightly for up to three days.
  8. This also freezes well, wrapped tightly for up to three months.
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