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It's that time of year again, and I just filled a 2-quart plastic food container with candied lemon and orange peel, dried apricots, dried pineapple and papaya chunks, red and green maraschino cherries, pecans, and walnuts, and topped them off with a good splash of Stroh spiced rum. Will let these babies soak for several days, mixing up the stuff each day for even distribution. Will be baking several loaves of the bishop's bread again this year - I'm using those smaller loaf pans as I get more loaves out of the recipe that way, and they bake faster too.
Each year I keep reminding myself to take photos - I hope I remember this year. I'm also thinking about adding some hazelnuts to the tops of some of the loaves. I'll be doing the chocolate vermicelli sprinkles on the loaf with the added broken bits of chocolate in the batter. I keep telling myself this recipe has both fruits and nuts and that means it has more nutritional value than a sugar cookie - right?
It's a coincidence because I just sat down to have a cup of tea while my eggs reach room temperature before I bake two pans of this and two pans of cranberry orange bread.
Thanks to you bumping it I am now reminded that my girlfriend prefers hers without the chocolate baked in. Now I'm wondering if she was just being Minnesota Nice when she said that or not! Think I'll call her.
Thank you so much for this recipe, link, thread! How kind of you! I will definitely be making this ASAP!
I will try sending you some more REPUTATION CHRISTMAS COOKIES ASAP, as soon as the system allows me to do so, they keep saying I have to "spread the love around"
Thank you!
A Merry Christmas Season 2020 to you & your loved ones!! And everyone
1-1/2C. flour
1-1/2t. baking powder
1/4t. salt
Mix well and add:
1C. whole Brazil nuts 1C. dried pineapple chunks
1/2C. walnut halves 1/2C. dried cherries
1/2C. pecan halves 1C. dried apricots
1 6oz. bar semi-sweet baking chocolate broken into bite-sized pieces
Line loaf pan with tin foil and grease generously or line with parchment paper. Pour ingredients into pan and shake down. Let sit to settle for one hour before baking.
Bake for 2 hours at 300 degrees. Be sure to test in middle. It is very dense and may need a little longer.
Remove from pan and peel off foil before completely cool. Refrigerate tightly wrapped to store.
Well, I'm often late (better than never) and I finally found brazil nuts, which used to be very common when I was a child. I'm going to try this even if it's high summer when I get to it and I like the combination in the recipe so much I want to try it before I tinker with it. I found cherries, too, and nothing else is hard, so I'm set.
My mother in law gave me a family recipe they call Bishop's Bread because great grandma made it when the bishop came to call. It's a coffee cake with streusel top.
My mother in law gave me a family recipe they call Bishop's Bread because great grandma made it when the bishop came to call. It's a coffee cake with streusel top.
Yeah, I looked at other recipes and "bishop's bread" seems to cover a lot of things. I liked this recipe and we liked the bread a lot. We call it fruitcake that doesn't suck.
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Thank you, Lodestar! Great link & thread!
I will definitely be making this ASAP!
Thank you!
